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Page contains 3 snapshots: views from a troopship heading overseas, passing the coast of Ireland. Other photographs include "Ruins at Arras" and unidentified soldiers with young women. Page also contains 2 news clippings, "Guelph military hospital praised" and "Snapped at their work: films from Canada to be shown in English hospitals."

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  • [start clipping] GUELPH MILITARY HOSPITAL PRAISED --- Mr. C.N.SENIOR COMMENDS WORK IN GIVING WOUNDED MEN NEW OUTLOOK. --- (Special Despatch to The Globe) Guelph, Jan. 25. - Mr. C. Norman Senior, publicity representative of the Military Hospitals Commission, Ottawa, has been at the Military Convalescent Hospital near Guelph for several days. He speaks very highly of the local institution, which is in many respects the most advanced of the hospitals in Canada that ae being devoted to vocationcal training, and Mr. Senior was also loud in praise of Col. Delamere and his staff, especially Lieut. Robertson, the officer in charge of vocational training here. Mr. Senior spoke at some lenght on the object of their immediate work, which is to give to the wounded soldier a new outlook of life, that in his depressed condition he may be induced to grasp the opportunity offered in vocational training and a new start in life. As an aid to enlisting the wounded men along new lines of thought, Mr. Senior mentioned the use of moving pictures, showing life in the Canadian military hospitals. That is really what he is here for now, having brought along a photographer who has taken a lot of pictures of the Guelph Convalescent Hospital dealing with the life of the men from the time they step off the train on arrival to their departure with a vocational equipment that has put neew life into many a man who had lost hope of ever again amounting to anything. [end clipping} [start clipping] SNAPPED AT THEIR WORK --- Films From Canada to be Shown in English Hospitals. In conjunction with the Pathescope Company the Military Hospitals Commission has compiled moving pictures of the career of a returned soldier from the time of disembarking until he eventually launches out to make his own living once more. Last week the camera men snapped the artificial limb factories' work from start to finish - how the logs are shaped into hands that will pick up pins and legs that can climb ladders. The aim is to encourage Canadian wounded (and others) in English hospitals to keep up their spirits in view of what looks, perhaps, to them a dismal future with one limb short. The films will be shown in all Canadian military hospitals in England, and the first public presentation, it is said, will be at the interallied conference on re-education. Included in the reels are beautiful western pictures, and suggest somewhat the idea of a travelogue. The Guelph industrial re-educational hospital and the functiona re-educational activities at Hart House have been filmed, too. "We have managed to get scenes of re-educational work for returned men from embroidery to shipbuilding," said Mr. Senior, in charge of the work, "just to show the boys in England what they will be able to take up when they come home." [end clipping]
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