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1. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   doesn’t even improve when it’s bedtime. Two blankets in this are just about as much use as none at all. To ... were here when I first came, and now, I am very impressed with the change. Every day seems to add ... a cigarette and an evening paper. I intend — should luck favour me — to spend considerable of my leave sitting ...

   Editor - Mar 8 2022 - 10:12am

2. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   of our adventure. It’s raining, cloudy, wretched. Even in this trench where we have a roofed funk ... last attack on us, the less I understand it. He came over in droves to occupy our trench — overland. He ... known, even if they consolidated it, we should merely blow them out again with artillery. If the relief ...

   Editor - Mar 8 2022 - 3:26pm

3. Letter from Gray, Robert Hampton

   came today was I glad. I was down to my last suit as my boy had lost the other pair I got in my last ... fast. The Russians are going ahead without stopping, our raids are getting bigger and even the Japs are ... evening once. That is bad as one should get away occasionally but it just doesn’t seem worthwhile so most ...

   Editor - Jul 14 2022 - 11:16am

4. Letter from McLellan, William John

   story & a balcony out in front. Its swell to sit out there & smoke in the evening- when it ... here almost every evening & write or put in the evening somehow. Burnie was in with us but he left ... place to put in the evenings Its Sunday A Army WWI Europe Great Britain Letter from soldier 1917 ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:28pm

5. Letter from Brown, Jack Malcolm

   Ontario. Well, we came on a troop train and no men are allowed on or off till they get their destination ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:25am

6. Letter from DeGear, Gordon Alexander

   pretty well all home by spring and would far sooner land home just as spring came in so the thought of ... but still there are very few cases now but nobody is allowed out and if it ever lifts before I leave ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:54am

7. Letter from Scherer, George Leslie

   water). Then we have more drill from 1.45 till 4.30 when we are dismissed for the day & allowed to go ... else. We have had lovely weather since we came into camp up till today. Today however it is raining and ...

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

8. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   America. And then came the most wonderful choir of boys I have ever heard. It was simply superb and I sat ... not allowed to travel on the trains or buses from Good Friday to Easter Monday. That shows just how ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:23pm

9. Letter from Weeks, Ludlow Jackson

   Witley Feb.27 1918 Dear Mother:- Your letter of the 5th [?] came tonight and a card from you last ... any box from Aunt Sophie, but please thank her for me just the same. I heard about the Sep. allowance ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:25am

10. Letter from Greenway, Samuel

    first day of June so papa will get the first payment in July $15 is all they will allow a single man to ... damage the destroyer run over and dropped a depth bomb all that came to the surface was oil we never saw ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:30pm