Vol. 44, No.1(Special Issue)

“We reached the George on July 10th to find everyone hungry, twenty-four of us all together: men, women and children.” Holden Budgell, ‘Max Budgell’s Journey (1 April – 3 July, 1940)’

“David Francis Bolger (listed as Bulger in records) signed up at the same time as fellow Straits resident William Tracy. Bolger saw action in France, and injured his finger from a gas shell splinter that hit him as he was the last person in a line. Labrador Veterans of World War I

“After the war, he married May McNeill of Island Harbour, north of Makkovik whom he had met on the SS Kyle prior to the war.” Labrador Veterans of World War |