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1. Letter from Bergquist, Arthur

   this coming week end. Last night I went to the show here and I saw in the Lobby that the picture ... enough, they should get it. It sure will be swell to be able to come home again. Well I guess this is ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

2. Letter from Robertson, Charles Eric

   profits. Surely the run of bad luck that has been with Will for so long will soon come to an end. There ... convalescent here. Like a bolt from the blue- but a very nice little bolt- has come the news that I am to have ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

3. Letter from Rowat, Thomas Alexander

   in a former letter. It takes so long for letters to go from here home, and to come from home here, ... by Caesar (?). They are very muddy and of course crowded with all kinds of traffic, so when I come in ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

4. Letter from Gill, Leslie Francis

   and coming in from astern a U boat was sighted dead ahead at 600 yds, making dense smoke. They could ... “With their departure I thought,” said the Escort Commander “that we were done for, and that the coming ...

   Editor - Jul 30 2023 - 2:27pm

5. Diary from Andrews, Alfred Herbert John

   coming next day and to get me a room. On Jan. 16 (leave was extended to 14 days) I left Grimsby at 9.05 ... in allowing a Lewis gun to be fired and wounding a member of the crew. I got him off. On Jan. 31 we ... I was servir Lt. in the Batt. and with Fisher coming it meant my promotion would be just that much ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Apr 3 2023 - 11:43am

6. Diary from Newton, John

   Mason our one time trumpeter. Lougheed tells me that the O.C. of his battery refuses to allow him to go ... Best. It was the most original and entertaining lecture I've ever heard. After that had an hours ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:58am

7. Letter from Baird, Gavin Gibson

   were used to attack large German bombers who might come over to bomb London, or later on in the war, to ... coast, as I have said, in a direct path with the zeppelins and Goethas that used to come over from ... the destroyers in the channel that the Germans were coming over, we were supposed to take to the air ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:19am

8. Letter from Baird, Gavin Gibson

   to come across men and dug-outs, and upon their seeing us they expressed their disgust of us in no ... orders didn't come through. As a matter of fact they didn't come through until Saturday, and ... flares but no more bombs. In the meantime, our machines were coming home and they were frantically ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:19am

9. Letter from Aikin, David

   buildings have a neglected apperance. this kind of land stretches for hundreds of miles then we come to the ... to sidetrack and wait for a train to pass it was loaded with Nurses and wounded soldiers coming from ... pretty sights to be seen coming out we are now getting out on the real ocean and some are begining to ...

   Editor - Mar 31 2023 - 9:57am

10. Letter from Baird, Gavin Gibson

    any means, and had come in for dinner. At this time of the year, of course, the hours of daylight were ... particular night-it was the 7th of November- we had completed our first show at Mons, and come back for ... coming down all the time because 700 "revs" would not keep her up. My observer climbed part way ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:19am