The title for this exhibit, "A Mother's War," came
from the pages of Clara Hawker's diaries. These
diaries were school exercise books in which Clara
wrote of everyday events for her sons to read when
they returned from the war. She became involved in
the Great War through the Women's Patriotic
Association, an association of women whose
contribution included sewing shirts and knitting
socks for the soldiers. She recorded events of
everyday family life, thus revealing some important | aspects of community life during those war years.
She wrote with pride of her children's
accomplishments, and she always wrote of how much
she missed her two sons who were so far away from
home.
This exhibit also includes correspondences from
Walter and Mortimer, which tell of their experiences
in England, Scotland, and France while serving with
the Newfoundland Regiment. It includes a brief
history of the Hawker family of Carbonear and their
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