This letter must have meant a lot to my mother-in-law as she kept it her whole life. Maybe it was because her brother, Edmund, had died in France in November, 1917 at the age of 18. I suspect that William Haley, (was he called Bill Haley?), would have been about the same age in 1942.
It looks like Grannie belonged to the De Salaberry Club in Valleyfield and that the members took it upon themselves to write to soldiers. And it looks like this young man was still in training in England. Knowing Grannie, I am sure she wrote back to him.
So what happened to Bill? Did he see action after he wrote this letter? He doesn't show up on the veteran's lists so he probably made it home after the war. He was in the Canadian Air Force, 9th Canadian Field Squadron, RCE, 4th Armoured Division. William Haley would be in his mid eighties now if he is still around.
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