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Personal testimony of Cadet Captain Kingsley, R.N.C.C.

19 December 1917. — 4 pages : 30 x 48 cm.

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Kingsley 3

Kingsley & Holms had to go on to Camp Hill & there found Cadet-Captain Mackenzie with glass in both eyes & bandaged. [added in pencil: Chief Petty Officer]

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N. B. Mr. King whom Cadet-Captain Mackenzie heard crying for water [would] be normally standing about the door of the gun-room. Sometimes they came inside & talked to the cadets. Mackenzie tired to swab his face with roller-towel in corner of the room. Could not get the towel down & pulled the whole fixture down - put his fist through the window in the endeavor to help King out - "And him with both eyes full of glass, as Kirsty [?] E. would say - then he fainted, so did King who recovered consciousness in the morgue

[handwritten in pencil top left: MG 1 vol 2124 number 50 b]


Reference: Archibald MacMechan Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 2124 number 50

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