
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)
Pages 12-13

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"
Pages 10-11

Songs - "Maconniche Horse At Festubert" (Lord
Strathcona's Horse)continued and
Poem from Ed Tanglefoot "Letter from a Driver to His Captain on Leave"
Pages 14-15

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Printed Matter from
5th Canadian Battalion
1st Canadian Division
Humorous Story "Hun Horse"

Page 1
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..."
1914-1915

#3 Embriodered Card
Cover
1914-1915

#3 Embriodered Card
Back
1914-1915

#3 Christmas Card
Cover Only

#2 Embriodered Card
Insert "Right is Might"
1914-1916

#2 Embriodered Card
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1914-1916

#2 Embriodered Card
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1914 - 1916

#2 Christmas Card
Interior

#2 Christmas Card
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![#1 Embriodered Card
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)
#1 Embriodered Card
Insert "Pensez a Moi"
[Think of Me]

#1 Embriodered Card
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#1 Embriodered Card
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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
Inside
1914-1915

Season's Greetings from
5th Battalion Canadian Contingent
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1914-1915

#1 Christmas Card
"A Christmas Garland From The Front"
Christmas 1915, New Year 1916
Cover Only

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