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1. Letter from McLellan, William John

   that's a mere trifle. News just came in that the Canadians have captured Lens. Things are certainly going ... hasn't even been up the line yet. So you see even after a fellow does go to France he has to take ... around July and even by going now we will hardly see fighting before then and I'd hate to spend all ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:24pm

2. Letter from Cobourg World

   trenches beside our gun. This would allow the enemy to get within a few hundred yards of the gun before we ... day's work we have had since we came up to this position, the noise was deafening. I was out here at the ... knocked one of them down, but neither was hurt, not even a scratch. We dug up the shell which had gone ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 30 2021 - 4:04pm

3. Memoir from Richards, Ralph

   No-man's-land until we came to a tape which had been previously laid by our engineers. Our instructions were to ... made such a mess of the trench in front of us that we passed right over it and finally came to a sunken ... in chare of an escort of Ulans. These were typical Huns. We marched four abreast and that evening ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Mar 5 2024 - 11:47am

4. Letter from Adams, George Walter

   Edie came home to lunch on Thursday, she had just heard at Sunnyside that peace was declared so you can ... nearly dead. Lil wanted us to go downtown in the evening but Edie & Margaret had had enough so Mr. ... we came out of church, boys were selling papers headed "Revolution in Germany". We ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:07am

5. Letter from Adams, George Walter

   Edie's birthday, Ernie & Nora came to supper, also Mabel, Margaret & Lil. In the evening Mr. ... & Mrs. Campbell came. They brought Edie two pretty cards & sword fern. Margaret worked her ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:07am

6. Letter from Trotter, Bernard Freeman

   September 20, 1916 Beloved People, Marjorie's of the 3rd. came on Monday, Father's of ... Aug 31st. yesterday, and to-day came the adorable sketch of my big sister. It is a superb likeness; ... It makes our hours of labor rather more pleasant; but the evenings, without a fire, are somewhat ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:17pm

7. Letter from Styles, Jack Morris

   apology for the one I wrote about 3 hrs ago. Since I wrote the other one the mail came in. With the mail ... one of you I have. I was looking at it when Joe came up and asked me who the girlfriend was. He nearly ... to see it now (that is a compliment you dope) That [?] Teeter sent that picture home; I haven’t even ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Aug 14 2022 - 5:16pm

8. Letter from Gray, John

   One evening when it was just about dark, one of our men was walking near our tent when he saw ... things to eat, I think it was hungry. I hope nobody killed it. Another day a squirel came right in ... a rock It was a funny little fat flat little fellow but when we came near he bobed down his hole. It was ...

   Editor - Feb 15 2022 - 3:21pm

9. Letter from Winterbottom, Sydney Amyas

   raid on Fritz's lines. He came back at us with his artillery. Our post was in the thick of it for ... fairly dry. Every morning we came in we got a good 3 fingers of rum, had breakfast and flopped anywhere ... for a doze. Even Adrian took his rum which he told me made him quite groggy. I never had enough to get ...

   Editor - Oct 3 2022 - 1:08pm

10. Letter from Lightbody, Alexander

    reached me the day Al came on leave. He’s pretty scared that you’ve been telling tales out of school. ... a veterinary college, dogs being the love of my life. Instead, along came the dirty old war, and the Ministry ... was so cold I didn’t even swim once. Well, cheerio for now, Buck. Thanks again for the letter. ...

    Editor - Aug 31 2023 - 2:35pm