Clarence Arthur McCann June 8, 1891 - June 2, 1947

Clarence Arthur McCann was born in Pembroke, Hants County, Nova Scotia to Arthur Frederick and Ella Jane (Carmichael) McCann. He grew up in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.

He married Ada May Smith on July 27, 1912 in Falmouth, Nova Scotia and together they had 14 children.

In 1915, Clarence travelled to Fredericton, New Brunswick to enlist in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He embarked for England not long after and remained overseas for almost four years. While there, he wrote many letters home. Over 100 of them survived and have been transcribed. The originals have been donated to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

I offer these transcriptions to those who have ancestors who served in the Great War so they might have a glimpse of what that life was like for these men.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Video Gives Me a Better Idea of the Conditions during WWI

I watched the first in this series of videos and I was hooked.  The ends are "chopped" off a couple of them, but I was happy to see the film footage and photos anyway.

http://youtu.be/_jJ-gEyxek0 BBC World War One from Above - 1/4

http://youtu.be/tHSqSA10rvY BBC World War One from Above 2/4

http://youtu.be/b0qGahOKerQ BBC World War One from Above 3/4

http://youtu.be/1C6cZ6HodXg BBC World War One from Above - 4/4

Until next time, Happy Researching!

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