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LAST SOLDIER IS NOW HOME
E. Sykes Arrives Last Week and Brings a Wife and Baby With Him
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 8 February 1921]
Many old friends here will be glad to learn of the arrival in Welland of E. Sykes, of the 98th Bn. He was a passenger on the S.S. Victorian, and arrived in Welland last week. He enlisted when the 98th was first organized in 1915, and served 3 years and 204 days with the colors. When he first joined he was only a little eighteen years old. He is probably the last soldier to return from overseas.
As a member of the 20th Bn, he was wounded at Vimy Ridge, but not seriously.
He was employed in Welland by M. Beatty & Sons, and now he comes back again , with his wife and baby, intending to make his home permanently here, where his brothers, Harry, and Joe are well known. Joe, who was also in active service, and badly wounded and was for three years in hospital, returning to Welland last June.
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