F. L. and M. Barrow - letter from Mary Barrow to her father-in-law Valentine E. Barrow, March 9, 1918

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A letter from Mary Barrow to her father-in-law Valentine E. Barrow, March 9, 1918. Mary and her husband Frederick Lyon lived at 19, Westholme Road, Golders Green in London, and Mary wrote the letter after a bomb fell near their home. Biography: Frederick Lyon Barrow enlisted in September 1914, and served in the 9th Battalion in England in the C.A.P.C. (Canadian Army Pay Corps), stationed in London. Mary Hutton Barrow was born in England in 1893 and emigrated to Edmonton, Canada. She died in 1965. During the First World War she volunteered extensively for the Red Cross, St. John Ambulance, wartime canteen, etc. Her brother, Jack Hutton, enlisted and died during the war. Frederick Barrow was born in 1894 in England and immigrated to Edmonton with his parents. He served with the Canadian forces oversees from 1914 to 1920. After the war he became an Adjustment Officer with the Great War Veterans' Association and Canadian Legion, and later became the first Departmental Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. He gave extensive evidence before the Federal Special Committee on Returned Soldiers' Problems. He died in 1979. Frederick and Mary had one daughter, Valentine Kathleen, who was a member of the RCAF women’s division, and later became a librarian at the University of Guelph. Frederick and Mary traveled extensively and visited about 40 countries.

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Creator Contributor Subject Language Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 3 pages
Geographic coverage Coordinates
  • 51.57631, -0.20033
Additional physical characteristics
  • Handwritten.
Physical repository Collection
  • Victoria to Vimy First World War Collection
Provider Genre Archival item identifier
  • Accession Number: 1991-053
Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Technical note
  • Metadata by M. Gerber. Migration metadata by KD.
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  • This material may be protected by copyright. Use of this material is permitted for research and private study purposes only. For all other uses, contact University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.
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