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Sends Home to Bath Interesting Souvenirs of their Mr. and Mrs. John Wishart. cor ner Granite and High Streeds, have received a very interesting souvenir of the great war from their son Donald who is a member of the 14sth Canadian battalion. The exhibit is in the Times win dow and consists of various batons, collar insignia and cap plates worn by different regiments. In the as sortment is that of his own bat talion, the Royal Engineers, his uncle David's regim a Canadian overseas force button, the 193 Canadian regiment and 1S2d ‘Mani toba Beavers’. South African and Australian forces and most int esting is the collection of German buttons picked up on the battlefield at Vimy Ridge. [n this apartment is a button of the Bavarians and Saxons and a German mark. Wishart is a patient at No. 10 base hospital, suffering from shell shock sustained at the fierce bat tle of Vimy Ridee and since he has been there he has had typhoid fever. Wishart is 22 years old and, be fore enlisting, was a draftsman at the Bath Iron Works.
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Bath Independent
Bath, Maine, US
Sat, Jul 28, 1917
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