telegram received by George and Martha Wood. Their worst fears were realized. Lyman, born in North Tryon in 1897, was very full of life and fun. He attended North Tryon School and Tryon Consolidated School and moved on to Acadia Collegiate Academy. After spending one year at the academy, Lyman and his brother, Brent, wrote and successfully passed matriculation papers to enter Acadia University. The brothers enjoyed their first year at university in 1914-15. This was also the year that the Great War began, but Lyman returned to university the following fall with no thought of enlisting. Shortly after classes resumed, Lyman attended a gathering at the university where recruits were being sought. At this meeting Lyman volunteered for the Princess Pat Infantry Brigade . The following letter was received by Lyman's brother back on the farm: Wolfville, N.S. n D , °cL 19> 1915 Dear Brother: I have finished packing my trunk and I am sending you my best suit and some 14 1/2 collars which I gave almost half a dollar for. I thought they might be some use to you perhaps. Also I am sending you some shoe blacking which we had at the Freshman Initiation. I gave some of my banners away, but am sending almost everything else home to you, so do as you please with it. I sold Amos's gown. We expect to leave here this afternoon on the 4:15 train. I am sending you the printing apparatus, but I want to keep the camera until I come home from Montreal. lean then leave you my other suit and the rest of my stuff. I did not think that our fellows would be mad because I enlisted, for they talked this summer as if they thought it was the right thing to do. I wish I had gone in the heavy artillery at Charlottetown now, but I'll get a commission as Lieutenant if I can. A man stands afar better chance of coming back if he goes in the Artillery, but I suppose that is not the right way to look at it though. The men are needed more in the Infantry , so I suppose it is only right to go where you are the most needed and where you can do the most good. I will express my trunk from Moncton home so you will likely get it about Tuesday or Wednesday night, Tuesday night I think. I never hated to leave a place so bad as I do Wolfville this time. But I must be doing what is right for there seems no other way out of it. Your loving brother, Lyme Lyman went to Montreal, leaving behind a saddened family and a worried girl friend. He trained in Canada for the next few months and in 1916, he and his compatriots were moved to England where he was transferred from the Princess Pats to take a course in signaling. Lyman wanted to go into the Infantry , but he was too young, so he had to be a Signaler. Lyman went to the Front in France early in 1917 with the 2nd. 157