Manila folder, 14″ x 9″, with Claude Ashling and Harold Ashling memorabilia, including newspaper clippings, postcards, documents, and photos. The majority date between 1908-1914 and relate to Claude Ashling.

Photos include images of Sgt Claude Ashling, Pte Harold Ashling, their regiments, tents, the plane of the Count de Lessops at Weston in 1908, and several images of Toronto, including Yonge St, the Boer War Memorial, the Canadian Volunteer Monument. Photographs are informal and formal.

Postcards include images of the Rheims Cathedral post-WWI and pre-WWII, with a note sent from a loved one to Sgt Claude Ashling; a memorial to those who died in captivity at Langensalza; the Geophysikal Institut at Nikolausberg, Gottingen; a 1919 image of a German submarine in Toronto from an aeroplane; the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto in 1919; and a postcard from the Montreal Bureau de Secours aux Prisonniers de Guerre, Section Anglaise Berne, to Gottingen, which details the contents of two parcels sent in both English and German. Another postcard from the Young Men’s Christian Association with the British Prisoners of War Interned in Holland appears to be a diary of sorts through November.

Newspaper clippings include a poem titled “The Soldier’s Boy,” detailing an ‘urchin’ receiving news of his father’s death, and one from the Vancouver Daily which announces Sergeant H. Ashling of Toronto as the winner of the Gov.-General’s Prize.

Documents include clearing form from steamer for Claude Ashling, arriving from England (sailed 19.2.19) in St John NB (on 1.3.19); and certified copy of an entry of birth for Harold Ashling in 1885, filled out on July 13th, 1954.