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1. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   evening when you are studying in your room. I hope that your quarters are comfortable, but they are sure ... call the new type of aircraft, came floating over our lines. It succeeded in getting thru the shrapnel ... shrapnel, we got the brute and he dropped right into our lines. When the plane came down the observer was ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:28pm

2. Letter from Cobourg World

   teachers reassembling in the school room after lessons. How I should love to drop in even through that trap ... evening service and take a seat in the Manse pew and enjoy the refreshing experience of listening to ... General visited our area and came to tea with me. In peace times he is (and still is I believe) Bishop of ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:50pm

3. Letter from Beattie, Reverend William

   lessons. How I should love to drop in even through that trap door in the ceiling and spend the rest of the ... closing hour with you all. Or could I drop in to the evening service and take a seat in the Manse pew and ... more acceptable to both officers and men. Today, the General visited our area and came to tea with me. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:21am

4. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   now, even though I don't feel very much like doing so. I am still in hospital with no prospects of ... evening...but it always clears up in the afternoon and is bright and golden with sunshine. Yesterday was ... begged until they let him go. Well the other day his wife came over to see me and she was nearly frantic ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:47pm

5. Letter from Thornton, Gordon Stanley

   Winnipeg for it would only unnecessarily spoil your holiday even tho the place was not very exciting. last ... will probably loose his leg and may even die. Hawkins wrote Mjr McEwen who is now in England saying he ... wounded came on Monday. she told me that Ham Graham had been killed and that Bob Mulligan had died. I had ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:54am

6. Letter from Haddow, George Caldwell

   hours later. Howard Batstone came in and talked with me for awhile and then some of the fellows lugged ... that he would lie, steal, cheat or even [?] without a qualm; yet if you keep your eye on him, he is not ... offensive (except in personal habits) and even kindly. Perhaps I judge him to harshly; it is apparent that ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

7. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   conditions here are not even faintly similar to anything you and I have seen together. It is difficult ... came to being torpedoed. It was very near — about a mile, to be exact. I remember seeing a lighthouse ... funny; now I know we had turned right around, and beat it back some distance. Then another destroyer came ...

   Editor - Mar 2 2022 - 4:00pm

8. Letter from Richardson, Charles Douglas

   considered to be the best in England, even though the rifle competition used to be held at Bisley. We started ... splendid. I was sorry I could not see the other two but military discipline would not allow more than one ... came to Steve one day last week and somehow it disappeared before we had time to read it so we are ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:10pm

9. Letter from Donnelly, William Herbert

   steel-hat towards shells when they came close. In the evening the Princess Pats came in under heavy shell to ... bite his ear when talking to him. When I came out over the field to headquarters about 4 AM Saturday ... and came back. We had lain in the mud all night, rather stood, kneeled and lay turn about and sure was ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

10. Diary from Calder, William George

    1 Saturday Working on car. The parts came this morning, so we started assemblying. Papa, John, ... & mamma came in to town tonight to the show. I was to Mun[?] tonight for supper. Went to show ... & Mamma came down with him. Girty & I went to church tonight. 3 Monday Working on the car. Gerty ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:17pm