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1. Letter from Greenway, Samuel

   11/6/18 Dear Sister I am sending you these few hoping to find you all well as it leaves me so at ... in France although quite a ways from the front. I am getting anxious to get there while the weather ... Batt Canadian Infantry Base Depot B.E.F. France I saw Charlie Luenell a couple of boys from Ladysmith ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:10pm

2. Letter from Bridges, Jeannette "Nettie" Drysdale

   husband may have to sail direct from France, for Canada with his men. He is a major you know and in ... command of a battery, but the Canadian troops won’t be leaving France for sometime yet so I may get home ... uniform that I was married in and I hoped to have them in time send you one for Xmas, but you will get it ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

3. Letter from Gullen, William Roy

   May 6 th 1917 Pte W,R, Gullen #772521. 1 st Batt n 1 st Div n France Dear Roy:– We received your ... back to us all as soon as you possibly can and to your wife and seven children, wish they would send ... Gullen 772521 1 st Batttn France. Army WWI North America Canada Letter to soldier 1917 May 6th Gullen, ...

   Editor - Sep 5 2024 - 12:56pm

4. Letter from Brown, Robert Gordon

   leave. Maybe you think I have been a little extravagant in sending a cable but the fellow with me sent ... one yesterday so they would have it for Xmas & I think I will send one tomorrow. You should be ... ones I got in London and I am going to try and send them in letters if allowed to. This is an immense ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 1:45am

5. Letter from Taylor-Bury

   France, April 12th 1916 My dear old Ray, Your interesting letter sent on from home reached me ... miss a letter at home, and I take it they send mine on or copies of them. My correspondence is fairly ... and sending me things. In the last letter she said they were all going to Australia après la guerre, ...

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

6. Letter from Hearle, Eric

   evening I enjoyed no end at the YMCA where thy had a swell go-as-you-please content as a send off to the ... kit to the [?] who will send it whenever I want out to me as the old stuff wears out. You cannot ... imagine how good they have been to me. Every three or 4 days they send a big box of pork pies or cake ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 12:08am

7. Letter from Trotter, Bernard Freeman

   D. Co'y, 11th Leicesters (Midland Pioneers) B.E.F., France December 29, 1916 My dear Marj, ... France. Not that I want you to have too rosy a picture of a pioneer's life. So far things have been ... etc. has to send so many officers to these courses every week; and they naturally pick on the junior ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:18pm

8. Letter from Irving, Gordon Budd

   France, Dec 4 /17 My dear Fern: I have not written to you for four or five days which us quite ... feet over a town that nobody had every seen before. We did not know if we were in Hunland or France ... North of France right along the coast. However we got back all right and although we had been reported ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 7:21am

9. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

   in France & I heard this morning that some were in the casualty list- they still refuse to let me ... go, but I fancy that perhaps before you receive this letter I may be in France- I still believe that ... a while, & send me a little shortbread- tea & tobacco. I hope that I shall not need many more of ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:44am

10. Letter from Johns, Lawrence Earl

    France Dec 3/1917 Mrs Henry Johns & family:- Elimvale. Ontario. Dear Friends:- Received your ... in France and still the war rages on. Was slightly wounded the last trip- namely three pieces of ... stores decorated and the possibility of sleighing and the different sports. Am sending you a small ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:04pm