
The following are a collection of
songs from "The Songs of The Trenches"
by Private V. Swanston of the
5th Battalion Machine Gun Section
1st Canadian Contingent
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Songs - "The Fifth Transport", "As Others See Them"
and "Some of the Knuts of the Fifth"
Pages 6-7    
  
          
     
    
          
          
Songs - "The Fifth At Festubert"
And "Maconniche Horse At Festubert" (Lord
Strathcona's Horse)
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Songs - "The Bomb Proofs", "If Tommy Had His Way" 
and "Apres La Guerre" 
Pages 2-3    
  
          
     
    
          
          
Songs - "The Absent-Minded Bomb-Thrower" 
and "Poker"
Pages 4-5    
  
          
     
    
          
          
Songs - "Some of the Knuts of the Fifth" continued
Featuring a verse on Corporal Peter Newman
Pages 8-9    
  
          
     
    
          
          
Songs - "Picket" and 
"The Red Headed Refugee"
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Songs - "Maconniche Horse At Festubert" (Lord
Strathcona's Horse)continued and
Poem from Ed Tanglefoot "Letter from a Driver to His Captain on Leave"
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Printed Matter from
5th Canadian Battalion
1st Canadian Division
Humorous Story "Hun Horse"    
  
          
     
    
          
          
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Printed Matter from
5th Canadian Battalion
1st Canadian Division
"A Song of Cover" & "A Slight Error"    
  
          
     
    
          
          
#5 Embriodered Christmas Card 
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#5 Embriodered Christmas Card 
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#4 Embriodered Card 
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#4 Embriodered Card 
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#3 Embriodered Card 
Insert "Souvenir..."
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#3 Embriodered Card 
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#3 Embriodered Card 
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#3 Christmas Card
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#2 Embriodered Card 
Insert "Right is Might"
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#2 Embriodered Card 
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#2 Embriodered Card 
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#2 Christmas Card
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#2 Christmas Card
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Insert "Pensez a Moi"
[Think of Me]](https://clip2-dev.web.viu.ca/sites/default/files/styles/clip_document_thumb/public/scans/embroidered%20card1%20insert.jpg?itok=NWNi8R-Y)
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"The Songs of The Trenches"
by Private V. Swanston of the
5th Battalion Machine Gun Section
1st Canadian Contingent
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Season's Greetings from
5th Battalion Canadian Contingent
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Season's Greetings from
5th Battalion Canadian Contingent
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#1 Christmas Card
"A Christmas Garland From The Front"
Christmas 1915, New Year 1916
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Easter Card
From Chaplin
April 4, 1915    
  
          
     
    
    
          
          
#4 Christmas Card
Season 1915 - 1916
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#4 Christmas Card
Season 1915 - 1916
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Documentation of 
No 13428 L/C P. Newman
of the 5th Battalion's 
Personal Effects
July 17, 1916 - September 23, 1916