Relaxing

The wedding photo of a woman from Handsworth, near Birmingham, and a gunner of the Canadian Field Artillery in December 1917.

Course 122 of #12 Service Flying Training School held its graduation dinner in Brandon, Manitoba, in March 1945, when the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was winding down. It was the last class to graduate from the school.

The tribulations of life in the army were satirized in this Second World War postcard series.

This little booklet was sold by ex-soldiers to raise money - it can be found in various versions, each carrying a different cover and "author."

Community groups near Canadian military facilities often provided entertainment for personnel, like this concert at a hospital near Birmingham.

These cards were typical of the commercial greeting cards sold to Canadian soldiers in Britain during the First World War.

This dance card belonged to a Canadian gunner whose unit spent part of the First World War on garrison duties on the Caribbean island of St Lucia.

An Ottawa printer released this series of humorous postcards that poked fun at military life during the Second World War.

These postcards of Canadians in uniform during the Second World War used official government photographs provided by the Department of Public Information.

This poem, printed in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, is typical of the highly emotional verse that was so common during the First World War.