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From: "Ron & Mary Harris" <>
Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] Desertion
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:38:08 -0500
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My great uncle, with the Cameron Highlanders of Canada, took a bullet wound
in France & also was very ill with VD. He was in & out of hospitals quite a
bit (mostly from the symptoms of the latter) & upon his last hospital
discharge, went AWOL for nearly a year. Likely he was hiding out in the
Scottish Highlands, where he was born & had family (he immigrated to Canada
in 1905) He turned up at HQ in England just in time to get a boat back to
Canada. He was arrested, tried, docked pay for the days he was missing &
sent back to Canada.

Mary Fletcher Harris
Canada

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