{"id":1644,"date":"2025-12-14T00:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2025-12-14T22:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:34:23","slug":"norman-williamsons-ww-i-service-history-and-transcribed-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"Norman Williamson\u2019s WW I Service History and Transcribed Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dwight Williamson of Winnipeg, Manitoba writes\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norman Williamson (1000758), served the latter part of WW I with the 54<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Kootenay Battalion.&nbsp; His memorabilia brought back from the war included quite a few items from his time with the 54<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;including a diary and notebook with brief entries.&nbsp; To preserve his service for the information of my brothers, sister, our children and our grand children (and for their children in the future), I have transcribed his diary and added information to it from Major Bailey\u2019s book &nbsp;\u201c<em>Cinquante Quatre<\/em>\u201d for context and for greater detail.&nbsp; I have attached a copy of this document to this email and was wondering whether it is of any interest to members of your site, commemorating the history of the 54<sup>th<\/sup>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you\u2026..Dwight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full story is at the link below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEC 2025 version <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DEC-2025-Norman-Williamsons-WW-I-Service-History-and-Transcribed-Diary.pdf\">Norman-Williamsons-WW-I-Service-History-and-Transcribed-Diary-2.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"http:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Norman-Williamsons-WW-I-Service-History-and-Transcribed-Diary-2.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><a href=\"http:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Norman-Williamsons-WW-I-Service-History-and-Transcribed-Diary-2.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwight Williamson of Winnipeg, Manitoba writes\u2026 Norman Williamson (1000758), served the latter part of WW I with the 54th&nbsp;Kootenay Battalion.&nbsp; His memorabilia brought back from the war included quite a few items from his time with the 54th&nbsp;including a diary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/?p=1644\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54thbattalioncef.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}