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1. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   office for a week's leave on Saturday and came down to Haywards, where I am writing this. On Sunday ... cooking made me too sleepy to even write a letter. I am staying till Thursday, then plan to go to London ... airgraph of 7 March came just before I started on leave. I am surprised that my mail has not been getting ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:04am

2. Diary from Davies, Harry

   May 1 Fine weather ever since first of pass, wrote letters in evening May 2 Bombing all day, soft ... jobs, nothing to do in evening May 3 Bombing all day, on mobilization duty May 4 Finished bombing today, ... tonight at Crewsborough, some of the old 205th in the 164th came into the depot, Duke of Connaught ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 12:51pm

3. Letter from McDougall, John Alexander

   to have signed right away and return to me you will see it is for a separation allowance you will get ... an allowance I have two sign over half of my monthly pay to you so Ill expect you to spend the $20 ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:11am

4. Letter from Gould, Albert Norman

   to the receipt of dependents' allowance or assigned pay should be directed to the ... Dependents' Allowance Board, Ottawa. If this savours of intrusion, I hope you will forgive in the light of the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:31am

5. Diary from Whyte, James Claude

   sleep untill tea was ready. Mr Mann. came up during late afternoon. & spent the evening Mr & Mrs ... Bennett came up a little later. & we spent a most enjoyable evening to-gether. The whole family are ... clothes all on even my boots. Sunday, May 6th, 1917 After putting in a rather cold night. We crawled out ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:36pm

6. Diary from Farlie, George Herbert

   were well pleased with our Barrage. There was no reply to speak of from the Germans An aeroplane came ... ordered out for scoring. In 5 Batty a piston head came off – it was simply screwed on against a copper ... washer. Friday 6 th April – Good Friday A mock bombardment came off @ 1-30 p.m. Saturday a fine clear day ...

   Editor - Nov 30 2023 - 3:31pm

7. Diary from Brown, Robert Gordon

   I understand, won't let us. In the evening, we worked some on our empalement. No ammunition came up- we ... track. There were evening observation balloons up and they must have done some rather good observing for ... from 10:00 a.m. to about 2 p.m., shrapnel and heavy 4.5 came flying over thick and fast. We had to keep ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:12pm

8. Letter from Thorburn, Howard Beverley

   shortbread came in handy to take to the O.P. Have been down at the Wagon lines yesterday and most of today ... Lines and even had a game of cricket. Some punk game but it's much harder to hit the ball than you ... a long time and the shortbread came in handy to take to the O.P. Have been down at the Wagon lines ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 5:59pm

9. Diary from White, Herbert Hill

   afternoon as we were not allowed to leave the camp. Army WWI Europe France Diary 1917 April 4th White, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:28pm

10. Letter from Fargey, James Henderson

    one to Aunt Mary. It has been raining nearly everyday since we came here and is raining harder this ... evening. They have the camp fixed up very good for the wet weather and we do not notice it as much. We went ... our tea their yesterday evening. Things are not so cheap here as I expected them to be yesterday I had ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:07am