General Election

12th December 1918, Letter from Alfred Johnson to Essie :

I have had various election papers but no authority for voting. I expect I should have voted for that Labour man. One has only to read Wrentmore's address to see what a fool he is.'

There are rumours that we are to go on to Germany later.

We have spent the night at Dinant on the Meuse - The Germans shot a lot of civilians here in 1914 and there are notices on the walls about it..

The last three or four nights I have slept in bed with sheets.

Friday: We have reached out destination, a place called Ardennes, on the Meuse in Namur.

[General Election 14 December 1918: Hampstead. Labour: Benjamin Skene MacKay; National Party: John Harris Wrentmore. Mackay, Labour gets 19% of the vote while George Balfour, Unionist wins with 70% of the cote and a majority of 9747.]

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