Steve Glover, Historian and Public Relations Executive of the Royal Canadian Barrie Legion in Canada, is organising an event about Canada's involvement in WW1 in April 2023

Steve Glover, Historian and Public Relations Executive of the Royal Canadian Barrie Legion in Canada, is organising an event about Canada's involvement in WW1 in April 2023. Steve is planning to launch the republishing of a volume of poetry written by Canadian WW1 soldier poet Frank P. Dixon (1898 – 1918), who was killed in WW1.  

The poems were published by Frank’s grieving Mother in 1937 in a book  entitled, “War-Time Memories in Verse” – there were 40 pages and it was privately printed.  I found out about the book through reading one of Frank P. Dixon’s poems – “Cigarettes” – posted on Twitter and began to try to find out more about him.  My research led me to The Brandon Legionnaire Newsletter – 2 April 2021

https://www.brandonlegion.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-Legionnaire-April.pdf

That link brought me to the Barrie Legion 147 Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/legion147  The Legion mentioned that they were hoping to reprint Frank’s poetry collection.   I sent them a message regarding a reprint and that brought me into contact with Steve Glover, Barrie Legion Branch Historian, who, in turn put me in touch with Frank’s Great-niece.  And that resulted in the republishing of Frank’s poems. 

The volume is available via:

http://www.poshupnorth.com/2022/12/war-time-memories-in-verse-frank-p-dixon.html

also on Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Time-Memories-Verse-overseas-Signaller/dp/1909643521

Barrie Legion 147 Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/legion147

The Royal Canadian Legion Br. 147 (in Barrie) is open Monday thru Friday (11:30am til 8:00pm)  The Legion street address is:   410 St. Vincent Street Barrie, Ontario Canada L4M 4A6