The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J Goodfellow...

I'm posting the First World War memoirs of my grandfather-in-law, Sampson J. Goodfellow, a few pages at a time... ( Read Part 1 .) The Supply Column wanted 400 Drivers and 200 Loaders. The Ammunition Column required 200 Motor Drivers and 200 Loaders. We did all types of drilling--physical culture--and when it rained the Government had rented an Old Church Hall on Elm St. between Trauley St. (now Bay St.) and Yonge St. where we did all types of physical culture: Boxing, Wrestling, Indoor... read more

Tomorrow is Remembrance Day, the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended the First WorldWar. In honour of that, I'm going to start doing something I've wanted to do for a long time: posting the First World War memoirs of my grandfather-in-law Sampson John Goodfellow. I'll post a few pages almost every day, I hope. They make for fascinating reading. Sam ended the war in a German POW camp after the Hanley Page bomber in which he was an observer for was shot down. He didn't...

I'm posting the First World War memoirs of my grandfather-in-law, Sampson J. Goodfellow, a few pages at a time... ( Part 1 . Part 2 .) Up at 6:00 a.m., had breakfast and paraded my guard to the Hurricane Deck on port side to have them inspected. The men from other companies got the devil but mine didn't. Left St. Johns at 5:15 p.m. and lights out at 9:00 p.m., out into the Atlantic Ocean but our boat anchored at Halifax at 4:20 a.m. We were on the Metagama ; and in the Bay was the...

I'm posting the First World War memoirs of my grandfather-in-law, Sampson J. Goodfellow, a few pages at a time... ( Part 1 . Part 2 . Part 3 .) We immediately got on the train but did not leave Liverpool until 11:30 a.m. We passed Crewe, Rugby, the outskirts of London and reached Shorncliffe, Kent at 8:15 p.m. We marched to Napier Barrack where we went under canvas. What a place, it had the nickname of Peckerhill. This was the place where they isolated all the troops who had Veneral...

I'm posting the First World War memoirs of my grandfather-in-law, Sampson J. Goodfellow, a few pages at a time... ( Part 1 . Part 2 . Part 3 . Part 4 . Part 5 . Part 6 . Part 7 . Part 8 . Part 9 . Part 10 . Part 11 . Part 12 . Part 13 . Part 14 . Part 15 . Part 16 . Part 17 . Part 18 . Part 19 . Part 20 . Part 21 . Part 22 . Part 23 . Part 24 .) When the Armistice was under negotiation, we were...

I'm posting the First World War memoirs of my grandfather-in-law, Sampson J. Goodfellow, a few pages at a time... ( Part 1 . Part 2 . Part 3 . Part 4 . Part 5 . Part 6 . Part 7 . Part 8 . Part 9 . Part 10 . Part 11 . Part 12 . Part 13 . Part 14 . Part 15 . Part 16 . Part 17 . Part 18 . Part 19 . Part 20 . Part 21 . Part 22 . Part 23 .) I began to think the Germans wondered who I was because they separated...