81 14 15 16 17 18 The GreatWar woman died” (Figure 11). The rhythm of her observations reflects the rhythm of the pandemic, eerily similar to our own COVID-19 experience, with its multiple waves and the efforts at building resistance and resilience. Other featured diaries, such as James S. Patrick’s (1898-1959), capture little-known, post-war conflicts. Five weeks after the Armistice, on December 21, 1918, the twenty-year-old Patrick signed up for the Siberian Expeditionary Force, and his war diary describes his transpacific voyage from Victoria, British Columbia, to Japan, and to Vladivostok in Russia between January 12 to April 22, 1919. In his landscape-style diary, with lined paper bound in dark red leather covers, he detailed his experiences with literary flair, expressive detail, and personality (Figure 12). Figure 12: James S. Patrick, notes dated January 8, 1919, representing Patrick’s effort to learn Japanese. Diary of James S. Patrick, 1918–19, Digital Frame 95, The Operation Canada Digital War Diaries Project, MLC Research Centre, Toronto. Courtesy of Archives of Ontario, North York.
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