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14 the examiner Friday Nov 10 1978 OfWorld War bottlefjefi Diary tells the grim story OTTAWA CP The date is Nov 11 1917 the place near Ypres in Belgium and the tiny pocket diary of Gunner Harry Mollins shows he is depressed This is an awful desolate country It is all torn up by shell fire The road is lined with dead horses and mules Were relieved this morning at am Was never so thankful for anything in my life Was wet thru and coated with mud from head to foot We fired 240 rounds during our 24 hours duty This is my 22nd birthday Where shall spend the next hope in Canada He wasstill in Europe on his 23rd birthday Nov 11 1918 but the diary surprisingly has no entry at all that day Surprising because that date marked the end of years of desolation and dirt and near death for Gunner Mollins and thousands like him The diarist this writers late father never explained the lapse Perhaps he wrote nothing in his pocket diary at the close of the First World War because he was busy celebrating with his friends in the 2nd Canadian Siege Battery celebrating the birthday and celebrating their survival if those who had joined the artillery unit in anada as boys more than three years earlier Skipped school in the after noon and went to see the re cruiting officer from the Rate tery says the first entry ct ti 1913 at Moncton many had been left in the cemeteries of northern France and Bel gium Perhaps though the omission was just part of the pattern of gaps that begin to appear months before the war ended gaps that finally became series of blank dated pages in notebooks small enough to fit the breast pocket of khaki shirt The lapses may simply be the gt result of the iearincss the hints of despair that creep into the later entries As early as the bad summer of 1916 after two months in ac British invention ertainly wonderful Sept 15 The drive was dandy lhe caterpillars were $3 grand success and certainly surprised the Boches Captured Flers and High Wood and ad vanced several miles Large losses on both sides Many Ger man prisoners inost all wounded passing all day Large numbers of our wounded Late in November 1017 Re ported to the doctor this morn ing and he said had Scabics kind of skin disease Re ported to field ambulance in Ypres Four days later in hos pital received no treatment again todayrhave not had bath yet The treatment steam bath and sulphur oint ment came after week But there is no complaint Ilard to complain about skin disease caused by dirt and dampness next to something likcthis Shelled pretty heavily last night and dugout near our Gunner Harry Mollins bottom left then l9 cookhouse was hit lwo poses for this photo taken Oct 26 I915 with his friends in the 2nd Canadian Siege Battery before hmh legs tukm at ml they left for Europe and the First World War CP Australians were killed me had his face all blown in and thighs Photo CBCTV Sundays 07 Mr Gomul II on on Tho Iwchcomon about log homes know about logs and log building know the comfort and style 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