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Hear iurs ycoore,- , Just for your. records,1 will fill in a few facts about myself,as a sort of a continuation of the Hambley record that k have outlined for you. I,George Henry h'ambley was born in that old red br- -ick house,whiph was known as being"up on the‘hill" in‘the town " Port Perry on ttov,I3,M96,.the second youngest of a family sf twelve. when I was five years of age my mother,Jane (oennie)WcCaugh1in)tiambley died in the winter of H?02 and that spring my Fatherbdohn yyamphhy took his family to Manitoba. I 'got my schooling at §wan fake, anitoba, and in the "egina Collegiate where my sister uva moAvoy was_living. I taught two different schools in Daskatchewan in l9lh and 1915. ._ When the war br'oke out on lug hth 191tr, I enlisted in the i0th Canadian Mounted Rifles, and after six months of tranhggl went to France in I916, and I worked a machine gun in the Battle of imy Ridge. . As a cavalry.man of the Canadian Light Horse Regiment,' took part in many battles,and , was with the "A" Squadron of that Kégiment when our Cavalry Unit was the first to enter the 1% of Monsas the Germans were driven out the day before the ftrmistice of ov.II 1918. Following the Armistice,our Cavalry Regiment-was one to lead the Canadian Army that marched across the old Roman Roads of Bekgium,to become the Army of Occ- upation of' the Rhine Valley of Germany. (I remember reading the life of' Martin Luther,as we rode thr.ough the famous Black Forest). On returning from the war I had a brief and memorable visit to Port Perry and visited many relatives in Toronto,in Blackstock, and tMahawa, Without any' motive of it, or letter about it,I Just chanced to call in at the harness shop of an old man, Mr Rolph,of whom my father had often spoken,(Father-said he was the most honest man in Canada),Sure enough the old man gave me the sum of $200.00 which, he said, my mother had willed to me twenty years before.That was enough to buy my clothes when l was discharged from the army.(I can't remember that my Father ever gold me about that money),but there it was.And l thanked Mr Rolph,and my other. ' When I was discharged in Toronto,in 1919, it was my mother's fisst coutin,Prcd.F1e'tqher yicLaughlin,0san of Theology in Victoria Coll- ege,who persuaded me to'rttiturn from swan Lake. manitobaLi learned long afterward that this saintyy,teacher and Professor had baptized me) He said, "George, I think you'll get the best education if you come to Victoria College for your arts". And that is what .l, did,and 'rce.yjcLauighlin help- -ed me a great deal.(I was living on' the third floor in a house of Charles st. in Toronto, as we couldn't afford to live in Burwash Hall,when ". took sick with Quinsy. Gosh, l was sick.But somehow I gotmy cousin the younger Dr. Marlow to come and he 1srrirrrkdtw lanced my throat,and saved my life.The as l was all alone, and so sick, who should come up to visit me but that fine old saint, Prof. Fletcher McLaughlin,climbing those three flights of stairs to call on one lonely student, myskkf.. Indeed it was Prof.Fletcher ',vt,yufh,1,,sir?y',t, than anyone else who got me started on the way to the Ministry. was 15 months as Student Minister at Sault Ste Marie,a nd then came to Winnipeg to ennter theology in old Wesley College, and l was oddained as one of' the ladt of the Meth- odists in old Grave Church in Winnipeg on May BIst 1925. From July Ist '925, up to July est I9&I,My ministry has foll- owed the Methodist system in the United Church,for fprty-six years,at various places in Manitoba, ending up for six years at Sort tr%ces,0htsirri6 (ox/mum VHF. 44 .)