Letter from Herbert C. Patterson to Laurence L. Doggett (May 14, 1916)
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This is an eight-page hand-written letter from Herbert C. Patterson to Laurence L. Doggett dated May 14, 1916. In the letter Patterson tells Doggett about the other alumni that he has met, what life in the trenches is like from a soldiers point of view and what it is like where he is stationed.
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Herbert C. Patterson graduated in 1915 from Springfield College, then the International YMCA College. After graduation he became the overseas representative for Canadian National Council Y.M.C.A. with Canadian troops of the 59th regiment during World War I. After the war, he spent most of his career with the Montreal YMCA, specifically the Westmount Branch. He Died on 1964
Blank backs of the letter was not digitized.
