The Canadian Forestry Corps play Americans @ Baseball and result was Canadians 6 – Americans 5.
Monday 24 June 1918
My papers re discharge are sent to London.
General Turner VC inspects Canadian Forestry Draft for France.
*Lieutenant General Sir Richard Ernest William Turner VC, KCB, KCMG, DSO (25 July 1871 – 19 June 1961) was a Canadian Army officer during the Boer War and the First World War, and a recipient of the Victoria Cross (for personal bravery in the Boer War).
Monday 8 April 1918
I make application for leave to Canada for 3 months. Gave application to Capt. Rix, OC, C. Coy, Canadian Forestry Corps.
Thursday 1 November 1917
Left Seaford for Canadian Forestry Corps @ Sunningdale, Windsor Forest.
*The Canadian Forestry Corps provided lumber for the Allied war effort by cutting and preparing timber in the United Kingdom and on the continent of Europe in both the First World War and the Second World War.
*The Forestry Corps established its English headquarters at Smith’s Lawn, Sunningdale, Berkshire, in the midst of Windsor Great Park. This 20 square kilometre area of forested land was traditionally the private hunting grounds of the Royal Family, whose rural home, Windsor Castle, was located nearby. Amongst the trees the Forestry Corps claims to have felled in the Park was the “William the Conqueror Oak”, 38 feet in circumference and large enough to be 1000 years old. As no saw was capable of cutting it from the outside, Canadian lumbermen dug a hole into the trunk large enough to allow one man to pull the saw from inside the tree! (http://guysboroughgreatwarveterans.blogspot.ca/2012/02/canadian-forestry-corps.html)
