These past few weeks have been all about World War II. After we finished the first war we moved immediately unto the next. After learning about a couple battles and why the war was caused Mrs Willemse assigned us to write a blog post about the people who participated in the war. We were to choose one person in specific.

I used the Library and Archives website from the Government of Canada. Here I looked for a soldier that was from Vancouver and had enough documents that I could write a blog post about.

In my research I found David Allison Killam.

David Killem was a naval Lieutenant who died while serving over seas. He was in The motor Torpedo Boat in which got blown into oieces by the explosion of a mine.

After reading all of David’s files I went ahead and wrote a diary entry in his perspective.

Here are some pictures of what I talked about in the diary entry.

Something I found really interesting was the letter his father wrote to the Naval Board. He writes about how the Naval “Board takes the trouble to unconsciously produce unnecessary unhappiness”. He expalins how the letter that is sent after troops and navy men go missing create an illusion that soldiers will never appear, and the letter can even be sent on Christmas day.

I really enjoyed reading all of these documents and in a way felt a little bit stalker like for knowing so much of someone that I never knew or will know.

After doing all my research I also noticed that weirdly enough David and I share the same birthdate, “coincidence”, I dont think so….