A soldier's service book.

This is my father's Soldier's Service Book. which he received when he enrolled in the Royal Canadian Engineers in Alberta in 1941. He was to carry it for the next 4 years, from Canada to England, then across the Channel to Normandy, through France and Belgium and on into Germany. It must have been sobering for him to write his will in the book but luckily it wasn't needed.

Should you wish to take a look, I have back-blipped a few photographs from our trip to Northumberland and Yorkshire:

On the old Roman northern frontier.

Cragside House

Checking the frontier

The poor bloody infantry

A pair of souls

Bury Richard III in York

Wensleydale