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War dairy Rev. Major Mike Dalton brought to life through art
Rob Gowan
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Brian Dalton thinks his
uncle would be pleased with
the way he has presented his
Second World War diary in
his new book.
I think he would approve,"
Dalton said recently from his
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home on Owen Sound's west
side. "Like anybody who
does something after some-
body dies, you wish you
would have done it earlier."
This past summer Dalton
completed and published
his book, "The Padre's War
Diary: Based on the Personal
World War II War Diary of
Rev. Major Mike Dalton."
Dalton's uncle, who died
in 2009 at the age of 107, was
born in Goderich in 1902
and grew up in the commu-
nity of Kingsbridge. He went
on to serve as a chaplain
with the Essex Scottish Regi-
ment from 1940 to 1946 dur-
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ing the Second World War.
Known as Padre to his
comrades, over the last four
years of his service Mike Dal-
ton kept a diary where he
wrote entries during his time
between his officer's and
chaplain's duties, detailing
his time in England and at
the front in France, Belgium,
Holland and up to the bor-
der of Germany.
In the book, Dalton, 69,
has printed hundreds of his
uncle's diary entries and
included hundreds more of
his original drawings depict-
ing his interpretation of what
his uncle must have been
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experiencing. The book
includes everything from his
uncle's experiences of losing
friends and comrades, to his
duties as a chaplain, to the
way he was able to still keep
his sense of humour and wit,
despite the horror that was
happening around him.
"I hope anyone who reads
it sees it as interesting, even
entertaining," Dalton said. "I
hope they see the various
aspects of human nature,
both the horrific and come-
dic, because it is funny in
places."
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Dalton focused on his paint-
ing for a number of years.
But he also developed a new
appreciation for his uncle's
war diary and felt he wanted
to do something with it as
well.
"I always knew it was
something important to my
family," Dalton said. "I didn't
really discover it as such a
unique diary until I retired."
Dalton, who was always
close with his uncle, decided
to do something with the
diary entries after he illus-
trated a graphic novel for the
Royal Ontario Museum in
2010.
"I am normally a painter,
where I paint pictures and
landscapes, so I had never
done anything like this
before," said Dalton. "Having
done that (for the ROM) I
wanted to do something
else, but I really didn't want
to do a graphic novel so I
thought the diary was an
ideal subject to illustrate
because of its content, both
war and human."
Dalton first started to work
on the book back in 2011. It
is believed his uncle origi-
nally had about 13 small
field journals, but they were
lost in a fire, except for one.
Fortunately a typed tran-
script of the diary was done
decades ago and Dalton was
able to use that to gather the
entries he would use for the
book.
I read through it and
found ones that were inter-
esting and ones that had
some visual components,"
said Dalton. "That took a
long time because I wanted
to have it planned out before
I started the illustrations so I
didn't repeat myself too
much."
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