Scope and Contents Letters of and regarding Corporal James Birse, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1916-1917.James Birse was born in Aberdeenshire in October 1884, and trained as a pharmacist working in both Aberdeen and Edinburgh prior to emigrating to Canada in 1904 where he continued in the same trade. After the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered with the Canadian Expeditionary Force and Private Birse travelled to the UK for training in early 1916. The items consist of two...