Showing posts with label Agnes Norma Skilling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agnes Norma Skilling. Show all posts

Thursday, May 17, 2012

The War Is Over and Ray Is Home. Now What?




The  war is over and Ray is home. During the time he was away he wrote to his girlfriend from Teeswater, Norma Skilling, and carried her photograph in his breast pocket. Unfortunately none of these letters survived, except a small scrap of paper with a few Valentine's Day verses sent to him by Norma.

Norma Skilling
c. 1916



Letters pertaining to Ray's re-establishment into civilian life will be posted as well as a short biography of what happened to him after the war. 

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

June 12, 1916 Walkerton, Ontario

This is Ray's first letter to his older brother Ernie who was running the family farm in Teeswater. He asks him to bring his fiancee (and later his wife) Norma Skilling out to see him.