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  1. Letter from Winterbottom, Sydney Amyas

    get warmed up on the march up. Since coming here I have received three suits of new underwear so am ... Barney’s. I didn’t wire or let him know I was coming so consequently missed him because he happened to be ... have cost quite a bit. I wasn’t allowed to pay for anything. Well when we went in there was a man and ...

    Editor - Sep 30 2022 - 7:39am

  2. Letter from Moody, Cecil Tyrell

    written on November 24th '17 so you can see how long the letters take now, to come over, and that was ... be wavering, or you would never allow yourself to think such things, let alone say them to me. ... time, and we had no idea shells ever fell that in the village, it being almost 9 miles from ther front ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 5:20am

  3. Letter from McNeill, John

      Just a line to let you know that I am all right. I have just come out of the trenches & am in ... I look as healthy & ruddy as ever, I can feel the strain in my system, lots of men are being sent ... brace me up & in the end I come out as strong as the best of them; I would hate to break up now that ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm

  4. Letter from Smith, Arthur Calvin

    as ever. No rain since coming up on Tues. I did not get down to see you before I left. I think I may ... o'clock, just coming off a rout March, and a swim. We march about 9 or 10 miles. The dust is just as good ... a lot of hay down in Port Colborne. I wish we had some good sod up here,it would come in handy on top of ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 5:12pm

  5. Letter from Brown, Jack Malcolm

    sometime is you like. Well how is Babe Nell coming on lately? Is she as fat as ever? I suppose you are ... well as ever, and am still patiently waiting for the war to finish. I get rather homesick for Canada at ... I remain as ever. Your loving brother Don XXXXXX Share these with Aunt Birdie& Uncle Matt for me Yours ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:25am

  6. Letter from Brown, Jack Malcolm

    Bramshott Nov. 2nd/18. My Dear Sister- Well Olga I thought for sure you had forgotten you ever had ... ever. Mine does not as much lately as it used to when I was younger. Yes Olga thank you I got my 20$ all ... see I would like her to have a chance to learn our ways of housekeeping before she comes west. She and ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:29am

  7. Letter from Thompson, John Alexander Selter

    ever get over the Terrible Trial it seems to me nothing could ever be so dreadful all I can see is John ... die at home but to go off and never come back is something dreadful. I don’t know why I [?] so much ... difference it seems to me just now nothing can ever make up for John. if you get word about him how he was ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

  8. Letter from Carry On: Letters in War-Time

    October 23rd, 1916. Dearest All: As you know I have been in action ever since I left England and ... England for the brief nine days. I plan novels galore and wonder whether I shall ever write them the way ... when we're out at the front and the battery wants us to come in they simply 'phone up the ...

    Editor - Jul 31 2022 - 8:56am

  9. Letter from Rooke, (Robert, Charles, and George)

    coming in off 3 weeks trek last Wed. night, also one from Mother & 2 from Jim to all of us. I wrote ... time, as I told her to send the letter on to you. We have been on the steady go ever since we left ... Klerksdorp on the 24 March and had to come in at last as half our horses are played; we had to shoot about 50 ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:43am

  10. Letter from Dennis, Wellington Murray and Margaret Munro

    I wish I could come to you but than money is so scarse now and you will come next summer to spend it with ... us and we will look forward to that I was wondering if you could not come how it would to get ... a cottage up near Goderich or where ever you think could you find out how much it would cost or even a room ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:28am