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1. Letter from Jackson, John James

   picking & there came a wave & just drowned all on deck for quite a while well I Came down to my ... just before he came on the boat, that operation I guess made him feel weak but I went & saw him ... someone got wise & the Capt of the Ship came around & investigated & read their acting Sergts ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:03am

2. Diary from Fowler, Jordan Mott

   Got lost in evening coming home from 58th- waggon lines near canal- very dern hard to find telephone ... 7:30am to Eswars. In the pm while visiting batteries word came for another move. I left Eswars in the ... a picture show. Oct. 29/18- Came across channel at 9:30 accompanied by hospital ships, several destroyers ...

   Editor - Sep 12 2022 - 4:46pm

3. Diary from Dawkins, Arnold F.A.

   filthy. The German guards keep them in control with whips and dogs. A few Russians are allowed near the ... arrived this evening. These included Peter Mitchell-Peel, English Army. He is surviving quite well. The ... Russians were moved out this evening. Tue Feb 6, 1945: Mint tea issued at 5:30 am. 8:15 am- parade outside ...

   Editor - Apr 20 2022 - 3:48pm

4. Diary from Young, John James

   heavy. cleared up in evening many transports on the road and infantry going up – Big guns, tanks etc ... going up to the front. paid 30 francs today wrote to G THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1918. Big attack came off ... through Boves 7.0 a.m. more whippet tanks pass through at noon. – wrote to G. plain env. in the evening ...

   Editor - Jul 31 2024 - 3:59pm

5. Letter from Loney, Edward (Ted)

   place for a sail boat in the summer. At the present time there are no pleasure boats allowed out. The ... town. The Pubs open at 10:30 and close again at 2. In the evening they are open from 6 until 10. We sure ... got a kick out of the pubs around there as they all had a piano. Every evening they would have ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:43pm

6. Letter from MacDonell, Malcolm James

   about a mile away where we were allowed to have time for tea and a look around. This mile, between the ... Prince’s Street gardens and in the evening I went out alone to visit the Willisons – Web’s friends. Monday ... the evening (9:30) we were on our way back to London by the first train and 7:15 Tuesday one saw us ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

7. Letter from Bridges, Jeannette "Nettie" Drysdale

   here to-morrow. I only have the evening off but Mary has the half day so will meet him first. Am going ... evening & I had dinner with him. Heaps of love from Net. Medical WWI Letter from soldier 1918 ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

8. Letter from Balfour, James Stevenson

   written since Sunday and this is Thursday. Monday night we left the bivouacking camp and came here to the ... was in hospital with a sore thumb. He came here last night and his thumb is much better. He says he ... Saturday aug. 7. We came back to billets last night. They are in private houses in a small french town. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:43pm

9. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   and Elizabeth must have been. A letter from Uncle Ashton came from Medicine Hat.(I had written to ... respectively, but I didn't take time to find the connection [?] these who came later, no doubt they were ... "golden age" of East Anglia, (the name applied to Suffolk and Norfolk). Hard times came to the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 1:20am

10. Letter from Cobourg World

    I have changed my address so much since 1 came across the ocean that the letters have a hard job to catch ... himself as he had as good boys as any that came overseas, only they were not handled right, as six days ... they all came back to a man. Why could not Floyd done that at Valcartier, and his boys would have stuck ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:57pm