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1. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

   on this boat. We got on the boat Saturday evening about 5 pm had supper on here and then got settled ... up and making my bed I took a stroll on deck. I stayed on deck till 10.30 and when I got up and came ... down stairs I found out I was seasick. I came up for a while and my head went round and round. ...

   Editor - Feb 8 2022 - 6:10am

2. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   hole with the other sergeant, when the shell came. I felt it must have got them. I went out. Only S. ... rather close together, he dropped a flare. The same second over came a shell, and — no trench — no men. ... — even now I don’t understand it — it never went off. Not one shell in a thousand does that now. Well, we ...

   Editor - Mar 8 2022 - 3:02pm

3. Letter from MacKay, Gordon Rae

   a couple of letters from you last week when the last big mail came in I got one from Frank the other day ... but it is raining again this evening. I hope it clears before morning (if)? we leave then. I was over ... thing that met us when we came into the hut was you two are on a draft and sure enought ten minutes ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:02pm

4. Letter from Roscoe, Albert Edward

   way to their liking. Although they used gases to shift us we came back with such force that we mowed ... them down like a mowing machine mows down hay. I do not know how I came to be alive today, it is more ... but when the roll came what was left in our battalion we had got mustered together fairly well, so now ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:43pm

5. Letter from Shortreed, Robert

   welcome and even though shells were dropping around I crawled into a dugout and read them. We remained in ... the same gun position until Wednesday noon when the battery we relieved on Sat. came up and took over ... the guns again and we walked out a piece to where the lorries they came up in stopped and we climbed ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:46am

6. Letter from Hollett, William Lloyd

   night, it wasn’t bad, when we came out people were lined up for a whole block. the name of the picture ... goblets, linen napkins and even [word obscured] on the table, I bet it’s costing the government a prty ... that she swears came from you, if that’s so thanks a million if it isn’t let me know and I’ll get ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

7. Letter from Boggs, Herbert Beaumont

   a very sad and heavy heart I sit down this Evening to write you on the very grievous news that came in ... lad the Rest came from God, so he knows best – I wonder where my boy Arthur is! he told me how he ... a nice kind woman – and wrote “I like Herbert even better than Arthur and he is better looking not so ...

   Editor - Jan 17 2022 - 10:54am

8. Letter from Sudbury, John P.

   of the 22nd today, as this letter will not leave my hands until tomorrow evening, so I shall be ... him up about writing. Some fellows think the censorship only allows piffle to go through and therefore ... got so hot that I came down to the YM tent and after a cup of tea, biscuits and a tin of apricots I am ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:05pm

9. Letter from Turner, Arthur Lawrence

   on Sunday morning after church and in the evening he brought her with him and we met together at my ... 9 oclock now and too dark to write anymore. I am allowed up all day now so should be sent to Con. Camp in ... have no orderly I may stay up to help. I have become an expert at desk washing since I came to the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Oct 12 2022 - 2:06pm

10. Letter from Van Allen, Austin Newton

    fellows & myself came in rather late & we were given 4 days C.B> (Confined to Barracks) so here ... send it parcel post or get it bound & published or something. I've even surprised myself in ... I managed to get a claim in for an allowance for you. There isn't much chance of getting it but I think ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:48pm