One of our assingments this week was to create a te a journal entry from someone who fought in World War One. At first, I wanted to try and find someone related to me, but that turned out to be a no go, as my mom didn’t know and my dad just started talking  about the Boher war as if I would have no idea what it was and pretending it was a lot more interesting than it actually is.

So then it came time to find a solider of my own, so I scowered Canada’s war memorial sites for a good solid man with lots of information. It was really difficult to find a good one, and it actually took a couple of days to do. Eventually, I found George Ashton. I was able to look at his birth and baptism records along with his registration forms for the military.

He didn’t have a very exciting story from when he wa sin the war that I could see, so I decided to use what I knew about him to write a journal entry from before the war began.

I knew his parents names, that they were farmers, that George was a baker, and that they lived in Warden, Quebec. There were a couple things I took creative license with, like the fact that I really didn’t have any confirmation that he had siblings. I just kind of assumed that farmers from the 1800’s would have more than one kid…

Anyways, I hope this is readable, cause I put it on fancy paper.