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1. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

   for the evening. Just to finish your first letter- three came- am glad to hear that Spencer is able to ... Deepcut April.2.1918 My dear Gertrude. Tuesday, but I will begin this letter, in the evening quiet ... of the billet, as letters from you came this morning. My last letter was rather a patchwork affair ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:10am

2. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   Bert Hammond came up to see me yesterday and brought the first Canadian letter mail to come for over ... be expected- then even after hostilities stop, there will be a lag before ordinary useful things get ... over-night up or down- and there are so many people all along the line who can impede or even prevent ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:41am

3. Letter from Fisher, Sydney Thomas

   to get to you I have been treated quite well by my captor I am allowed to write two of these letters ... getting in touch with Jim's friends in the States as parcels from there are allowed a freer hand. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 5:08am

4. Letter from Humewood School

   since I last attended the school, I am even more highly pleased, that I should remembered. Possibly the ... ladies concerned, will be pleased to know that the sweater I received in last year’s parcel came in on ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:06pm

5. Letter from Greenleese, Elwood Silverman

   weeks ago. It came at a very convenient time too as I was in quarantine then and we sure did enjoy the ... haven't had a days leave yet. Not even a week-end. As soon as I qualify I will be able to get a six days ... I don't know whether it even has a picture show in it or not. Godalming it is called, I walked there and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:35pm

6. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   he lost to the British. In one case, fellows have told me that three whole divisions came up to ... They got ’em, too, in this instance, though even as I write, I guess, we have taken them again. It’s ... all too stupendous for me to describe. — corpses three deep — one can’t realize it even when the ...

   Editor - Mar 7 2022 - 2:06pm

7. Letter from Styles, Jack Morris

   Bathing Beauties etc) All in all we had a swell time. Then we came here, our new station. I have just ... loving son Jack P.S. I know there isn’t much in these letters but there is so little we are allowed to ... shows (Wing and a Prayer, Bathing Beauties etc) All in all we had a swell time. Then we came here, our ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Aug 15 2022 - 11:00am

8. Letter from Matheson, Alexander

   crowd on the boat. I met Roddie McKay and George Turner coming over. They didnt even know me at all. ... I wrote more letters sinse I came here then I did in the last six years. We didn't get any leave yet. ... I ought to get an answer pretty soon. I had an awful time counting the money when I came here first. I am ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:29pm

9. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

   from the rest camp this afternoon, or rather this evening and am glad to be back with the battery ... Wides and Witness. Have just had a lunch for which the chicken came in very good and the butter is fine. ... He was one of the finest fellows in the battery and one of the most popular and his death came as ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:45am

10. Diary from Newton, John

    Thursday Feb. 7, 1918 Drizzling rain nearly all day. McCrimmon went on leave so I came up to the battery. ... Hun seems to be resting up. Visited the 15th btty mess in the evening. Saturday Feb. 9, 1918 Fair- ... ground mist Front normal Sunday Feb. 10, 1918 Nice day Capt Mielke came up to the guns & MacDonald ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 7:23am