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- "I certify that John McDermid of Lochaber in the County of Ottawa and province of Canada, Farmer, and Mary McMillan of the same place, spinster, were by due publication of bans, married by me at Cumberland in the County of Russell and province aforesaid, on the seventh day of October, one thousand eigh hundred and forty seven.
George Bell, Minister
Presbyterian Church Buckingham and Lochaber. Registration signed by Duncan McDermid and Dugald McInnes. Folio Thirty ninth."
The source of the names of Joihn and Mary's children is Beatrice M Dawson.
-- Document from Canadian Red Cross Society --
No. 781344 Name: Pte J.W. mcDermid Batt: 46th Canadians
Hospital: West Suffolk General
Bury St. Edmunds
Suffolk, England
Dear Madam
I am very glad to tell you that Pte McDermid is now almost well & goes out every day & is considered convalescent.
As he is now going on so well, we shall not write you a gain unless there should be something special to report.
Yrs truly
Kathleen Waring
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-- Newpaper clipping --
WINS MILITARY MEDAL
An official telegram received on Monday notified Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McDermid, of Silver Creek, that their son Private John W. McDermid, had been wounded in the shoulder and neck. The telegrams tated that the wound was serious. It was a great source of relief to the parents and family to have a letter from the brave soldier boy the day following the receipt of the notification and written in the hospital, where he is detained by his injuries. This letter makes light of his wound, and another, an earlier one, tells of the gratifying fact of his having won the Military Medal. The lattest letter is addressed to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McDermid, and is dated October 28, 1917, and reads, in part, as follows:
"Dear Parent, --
"No doubt you will be looking for a letter from me as I have not been writing very regularly lately. I have been slightlly wounded in the left shoulder, but am getting along O.K. Do not know yet where they will send me, but will write later and give my address. I expect to get to "Blighty," and if I do I will get some leave.... I was wounded by shrapnel. We had a hard trip in. No doubt you have read in the papers where the Canadians did some heavy fighting. Well, there is not much news. Do not worry. I am O.K. Will write soon again. Your loving son, "JOHN:
The earlier letter is from Somwhere in France and is dated October 18, 1917, and is addressed to Mr. Archie McDermid and reads: -- My dear brother -- Just a few lines this evening in answer to your letter which I received a few days ago. I am always glad to get a newsy letter from home, as our mail is about all we have to look forward to. Of course pay day comes twice a month. But the day does not amount to much -- a morning paper, a bag of figs and a packet of biscuits and your pay is goine. Believe me, money never was, or will look as good to m e as it does here in France... Well Archie, I have had some exciting times since I came over here, and by the look of t hings there is more fun to come. I have given everything up for lost on different occasions, but have come out O.K. in the end. Have been under some heavy shell fire. There is no use in trying to describe it, because no words can tell what it is like to be in a havey bombardment. --
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