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1. Letter from MacKay, Gordon Rae

   when we have nothing else to do in the evenings it helps kill time. He is a pretty hard guy to kill ... sport with so many green horns playing. We came back to our huts & had a real feed. One we had ... shipped in from London for our hut. After supper we boxed a while. I broke even for honors. We then had ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:00pm

2. Letter from Bennett, James Howard

   don't know what to do with our selves to pass the evenings away. We have quite a lot of books in the hut ... to read, but it is too nice out side to sit and read all evening In the army seems to be a great ... the 124th. The 148th battalion is in this camp now. I haven't seen Roy Stafford since they came ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:05pm

3. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

   Lydd, Kent, April 23rd 1916 Dear Mother: Easter Sunday evening and I must write you a line. Have ... for a walk then came back to write letters. We had a flying accident in camp morning. An aeroplane ... Let me know about it. Of course it will come in time. I know a fellow who came over last summer whose ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:23am

4. Letter from Johnson, Thomas William

   the second Sunday evening & also at an afternoon appointment out in the country to which I had ... I enjoyed myself. But that school!- We should have been heartily ashamed of it even in the remotest place in ... that he grew enough to supply the whole of this year's flour. But then it came to apples!!! Well, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 7:06pm

5. Diary from Tilbury, Frank

   Breakfast 7am. got letter from Mother & Louie. fine day but cool evening Louies letter May 10th/17. ... guard at Old Church. wrote letters to Louie & Mother. lovely evening aeroplane fell by Y.M.C.A. ... 7/17. still on guard at Church. cool evening got papers Apr 21th & 25th Saturday, June 9th, 1917 ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:52am

6. Letter from Robinson, Robert S.

   farm who grow their own mealies. Each Kaffir male is allowed two or three wives, and I don't think ... furniture, and best of all, pigs, to take care of themselves. The army is allowed in written orders to ... to our right. We soon came under heavy rifle fire from a force of the enemy in a farm to the front. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Jan 5 2024 - 8:27am

7. Diary from Andrews, Alfred Herbert John

   1914, I made up my mind to enlist. I was at a party at Mrs. St. Louis' home that evening when ... time was spent cleaning up the lines. Only those who had a uniform were allowed to attend the ... in with their rifles but without even the proverbial fig leaf. Then followed a succession of drills, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Apr 3 2023 - 10:21am

8. Letter from Dickson, William Haslam

   been to town since I came out but all the rest have had intended to go today. there were about 50.000 ... here last Sunday My bundle came out here yesterday while I was out drilling and The "Cap" ... singers in our Co. and they have two hours of it every evening if Dan could get Hannah a pass she could ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:41am

9. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   patrolling the Channel all morning in search of a German submarine, came over to our camp. It was one of the ... It came right over our tent just about 100?150 feet from ground and we could see the thing very ... round. So I am quite respectable now. I was a disgrace in Toronto, as I didn't even have a change of ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:26pm

10. Letter from Leighton, Alice and Arthur

    Sandal House Sandal Wakefield Sunday Mar. 18.17 Dearest Arfa Two dear letters came from you this ... you to be ill and me not around to look after you or even to see you occasionally. I'm sure Dr. ... all came yesterday and we had such a nice time. I liked them all, and Florie[?] particularly, and they ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:54pm