75 14 15 16 17 18 The GreatWar its toll. For instance, after a comrade’s death on January 16, 1918, he wrote: “It is nice to be dead and out of it – I used to think that I did not want to die but when work and worry get hold of you death is sweet.” At other times, the power of nature prompted him into the philosophical: “Once more the Sun is shining. It is good to get sunshine after so much rain. Life is sunshine and shadows” (November 22, 1917) (Figure 7). Figure 6: E. Mackintosh, Afro-Canadian Unit, No. 2 Construction Battalion, November 1916, Windsor Museum/ P6110. Figure 7: William Andrew White, “Once more the sun is shining. It is good to get sunshine after so much rain. Life is sunshine and shadows.” Entry dated November 22, 1917, Diary of William Andrew White, 1917, Digital Frame 157, The Operation Canada Digital War Diaries Project, MLC Research Centre, Toronto. Courtesy of Library and Archives Canada.
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