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1. Letter from Bryer, Edward

   there now by what I hear. I have not been sick since I came over here except for colds and that is ... or even fences that are wooden mostly all the house are Brick or cement. even the fence posts are ... lots of corners and fell into water holes since I came here, about the only way to do is to smoke ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 4:45pm

2. Letter from Vandersluys, Charles Herman

   be heard even from here. I went up to their starting place last night where the Bde were assembled. ... when his company left I came back to D.H.Q. I dont suppose I will hear anything until night and can ... there is one hell of a roar of guns to be heard even from here. I went up to their starting place last ...

   Editor - Apr 7 2023 - 11:51am

3. Letter from Scherer, George Leslie

   I can't write any better even if my intentions are good. I suppose you've already heard about the ... small, smaller even than ours, and was packed. I spoke with the minister for a few minutes after service ... and he said Mrs. Dunn intends having the two of us out for tea some evening. Saturday afternoon I was ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:12am

4. Letter from Brown, Jack Malcolm

   I came here on the 2nd of this month, just five months from the day I got hit, and oh such a place. ... wire entanglements. Well I got pretty tired of staying over there this evening so when the ... sentry's back was turned I took a race for the gap, and came here to the Y.M.C.A. to write some letters, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:29am

5. Letter from Sudbury, John P.

   are but certainly aren't those of the Western Front for even in our billet near the line we hear ... going on his usual Sunday morning round talking to the boys, when he came to an Irishman. "Well ... and hop gardens beyond our billet and I came on to the top of some rising ground from where I had ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:07pm

6. Letter from Moore, Joseph Lorne

   Jan. 11/46 Dear Mom & Dad, Many thanks for the swell birthday box. It came today at noon. I am ... & enlarged the wrong one. They came in the mail today. Perhaps you can have one reproduced from the ... here ever since the evening of the ninth. The wind blows the rain under our door so that we are ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:06am

7. Letter from Dennison, Gordon Joshua

   around and some still even Civil clothes yet. We just got here this morning, it was quite a ride from ... There is a mechanic here from Dafoe that came in 2 or 3 weeks ago he tried his test and all but they ... Well I just came back from down town and boy is it a long way down town, we have to walk about a mile ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:34am

8. Letter from Callcott, Clifford

   that yesterday I came on this rest course, as we call it, anyway Sunday night, the F./S. came into the ... into the lake. I would say about the middle, there is every thing there even a glass of beer if you ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Nov 26 2021 - 3:56pm

9. Newspaper Article from Cox, Bertram Howard

   a Chinese prayer-meeting. Finally we reached a town and had a pay-day. That evening everyone went out to ... A mystified look came over the party. A hurried look was paid the book to see if there was a page on “French— ... Cross man is starting his French over again. A number of boys who came fresh to the army from the High ...

   Editor - Nov 18 2021 - 3:26pm

10. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

    and was certainly very glad to know that you were sufficiently better to be able to write again even ... moved up since we came down here but some of the boys were telling us about seeing them. We are having ... came to France and I have never been sick a day, in fact the only time I have been sick since coming up ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:32am