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The marvels of London The flowers in Hyde Park are in â€" be able to dive and set it going . * f y ~. figy t hh W_Hde arrived in England on blolgm. & ; t it 1. agqix}.” Tgm e;caped th;s cre:sh # ~ $5 42C *~ [ 2 0MRDCT o prpp.4n> i £. & Wednesday, Feb ~ A trip to the.country reveals uninjured. is instructor By Bos OWEN rlige o9 jaen / & £FT4 *#: after a teh~)(,1ay VO;IESH?'S 312}:: that gardens are being planted in â€" suffered cuts to his face and legs. chronicle@belinet.ca .. 4 a +2 .2!/C 8 letter to his mother reminds us of Mi4â€"February. The onions are © Tom notes, "The engine was torn Tt will one day become part of a book, a legacy of the family of his sense of routine. It opens, "As â€" AlVeady six inches high. England â€" away altogether and the rest of Picter and Anne Wyminga. Right now, it is a poignant and deeply YOu will see from the date this is 18, "one of the prettiest places I _ the machine I think could have ironic bundle of letters sent by a young man of 18 years to his Sunday, the usual write letters bave ever seen." _ _ been used for matchwood. family in Canada during the tailâ€"end of World War 1. day. * He has arrived in London. Never far from his purpose, he â€" Certainly not the words a worried The fascinating account was found in Tom Martin‘s locker. He The weather is fine, the grass is Comments in dlosing on Fobruory puront wantg lo hear, Tom got had kept a copyâ€"of almost every letter h. Tom was Anne £16en, the architecture splendid 13 that he is going to try to get a â€" three days leave to recuperate. i f $ y le er he sent home. Tom was The show : I~ "Bristol Fighter" to fly, "as they Two weeks later he passes on a Wyminga‘s uncle. When Anne‘s husband Pieter Wyminga hows are fine, and he has * > i expressed interest in the Historic accounts, they were passed on to °°VCD days leave to soak it all in. _ S&Y 4 Whol¢ fadd Cll OnttOf (germar% has had a tha't*bhl*S uol man‘ss the Colborne couple. Glancing through the treasure, it appears all. bToin,, e}?thuses to his father {’fi;flf gonerennge ie uen lal'SI‘hZIn zilnnt?tlxlnemfll}gnfllr'sec.otla11d he that is missing are the cards and some letters sent to his siblings, svhoiléh ths lzlirl}élergmunddtul%esl Soon we find him in camp, writes, "Up here it is well nigh and fihe many phot_os taken over the year he was away from home. undertakings. Under t]wonl elr ‘éf readying for the work ahead. impossible to land without Picter hopes to include the contents of the recovered letters in & pig great Chty thers iSlC w 1t° 'grk News circulates that fliers aren‘t crashing because there are + book he is writing about the family history. . of tubes through which Z‘Irralx(iin‘; are Sent over until they are 19. He has â€" mountains on every side." The binder and an accompanying diary are kept in a safety run about once every two of three _ Six months to wait. He speculates His first mention of a girl deposit box, a priceless memory of the final year in the YOUNE .minutes and carry }Z)u rapidly to that in the interim he may comes in his St. Patrick‘s Day ; man‘s life. . . any place you may wish to go." Pecome an instructor or ferry â€" letter. It appears that May Tyrrel _ PABT It _ e . He goes on to describe the PMot If be had })een held back . has written. He is kicking himself | That diary was found among Stations and elevators which until that bu‘thfiid%{ l:leF\‘V(I){IIl{Id not for not having visited her when | Thomas Martin left Canada in . his belongings. The final entry, . carry the‘ passengers to the NSYQ@bR To) uon baide, â€" o. â€"â€" e approsopintinonthiont | January, 1918 in the service of the _ Was August 11, 1918. He had the surface.. _ _ hissinglainet} ol oo d ooo eenonnsssontaind | Royal Flying Corps. During the . title for the next page scrolled at ~ / He tells hisâ€"dad the.railways, y of fiuhna . ... »hias him anxious‘to toiget.aboard _ ’ «final year of his life ; Tom kept a . the top of the page waiting for an "have the Toronto, ‘Hamilton and <> = m pflfli flYlllO SA T .ih'new machine, Heâ€"excites, "It °> â€"| copy of most of his letters home,â€" . eftry that would never be made, . . Buffalo Railway.skinned."â€"Fine, . (In the meantime, hisléetters‘are . As the fastest machine yet brought x They have been maintained in . Had he lived, it would have told df .. largeicovered.stations "two to â€" crammed‘with observations of _.out by the British and‘is indeed a > ‘ immaculaté condition since they â€" his first real "show", a ‘daring _ three times as big as the Toronto . the country. the arr 1va\_l'0,f)spr.{filg,>‘ »wonderfulâ€"machine =which ‘ were Fecovered from . ‘his _ battle with five Fokker aircraft" Union:>,;. The,coaches run so. and the lessons learned/on the," Molnts four gunsâ€"so youâ€"can see | belongings in August, 1918 after _. JUSt inside the border of Belgium.. . smoothly that you would scarcely new flying machines; some of . it is quiteâ€"well armed." j *~ . he was shot down over Belgium. > "The S. S. Tunisian weighed â€" know you were moving." > which need only a ‘gust of wind < . The same letter reveals that he The following story details his Anchor in Halifax, bound for The grand world is opening. â€" when landing to turn them over, â€" â€" has been issued a gas mask and life in Britain prior to his Europe with 11 other ships in The Canadian boy has arrived. Living in ar era when flight â€" been required to take a gas course departure for France early in â€" COnvoy behind a cruiser. Nine of But perhaps if is too much cfa was .a new experience. for Where helmeted participants pass July, 1918. It is the second in a . those ships carried troops and good thing. everyone, his letters home must through a room filled with series of three articles covering "Chinese . labourers". _ One He reports to his dad on have left his family fearful for his ~Chlorine gas. Through it all he | the final year of his life. contained a hold full of oil. The February 13 that he, "won‘t be life. assures his dad that he won‘t | Many of his letters are deeply, last, Tom says, has more sorry to get away from the City, In his March 13 letter he Deed the mask anyway, as he will . ironic, given what we know. They . @xPlosives than the Mont Blane â€" not because I have been having a â€" recalls getting lost in the clouds _ be far from the frontline trenches. | also point to the eternal optimism Which ~exploded in Halifax poor time but because I am and nearly running out of fuel, . â€" | of youth, the unfailing patriotism _ Rarbour a month before. In all, running short of what cash L care and another near miss when an ; 8 fim in Chaster E and the fullness of life, all taken Close to 40,000 men are crammed to spend." There is everything a engine conked out on him April P ; rarmef in a merciless war. on board the nine troop ships. person could want, except sugar forcing a crash landing’ Wea{)hl prings ths “-altn;ic Tom‘s only recorded letter Two days before arriving in and butter. Technology has destroying the undercarriage and CI o mare nnaitenite g at from the passage to England England, the ships enter the â€" solved both parts of that problem propeller. In the same missive he f 1est‘er where ho can ront 4 (')t opens with one of the most â€" Gangerzone and go on submarine for the youngairman. He proudly: warns about the, dangers of hO_r nine pence an hour. Desp;le poignant statements found in the â€" 10o0kout. They are joined by seven . announces that he has discovered _ killing a spider, claiming that" is many hours of lelsure,the contents of his papers. destroyers who guide them into "a hundred litfle pills of friend of mine predicted all ki;]da assures his mother th?t ‘tli He opens, "Since leaving. Port. . saccharine." And oleoâ€"margarine . of evil for me (after killing o $ English girls do not compmeflw_l ; Halifax I have started a diary as I Tom finds out later that one of Will substitute for butter. and it came out to be true," g one) â€" the Canadians and he has nothing thought it might be somewhat â€" the troop ships was torpedoed, Later he calms his mother‘s . On the same day he w «to do with them, In the next interesting in after years, and L With little loss of life. fealj of this new addifive by with his instructor to V‘fnt out , Paragraph he longs for August 18 intend to keep it up, untilIarrive . _ Rumours abound as they telling her he ho longer uses «forced landings. "My ; practise â€" so that he can get into action. + back home again if my resolution &AYTive. One of them . has saccharine. shut off the engine and ui peres sgett:? 7 hk warehouses full of food;enoughto ‘ "His "European ~education talking tume"and:whafiledd?iartedv ; \» . continged on page 10 ra x it h in ty eprninitiiorth nigtioa on on O NEAUNE &Q im ooo i on omm wan coimmatti ie s s rnecei. | i@rmpemeâ€"â€" sE ner eC Revpabientet im mniaits ain erieris 4 . l d mebataisler o onk on cag o |