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1. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   away. I am afraid this will only be a short note though because I have a terrible lot to do. Tomorrow we ... are going on a three day trucking scheme. The whole Canadian Corps. is taking part in it and it will ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:40pm

2. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   ‘on pain of death' to spend a leave in London without seeing her, so I guess I will have plenty ... I have nearly 15 pounds on hand at present but I expect that it will be about 10 pounds when I get ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:59pm

3. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   Minnion will introduce me anyway, so I won't feel too much like a buttinsky. Minnion is our ... Navigation and one for ourselves. I will have 2 pretty soon, they are going to issue us with Navigation ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:15pm

4. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   I have never missed the money and I will have about five years paid by the time the war is over. As for ... they possibly do anything for her? I wish I knew her better. I would write her a letter. I think I will ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:18pm

5. Letter from Johnson, Thomas William

   trenches. If you go to them at any time they are open, you will find them crowded to suffocation. You see, ... more lest I incur the anger of Zeus- i.e. the Censor- and my letter will get "scrapped." ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:45pm

6. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

   I will hardly get through next term without borrowing from Muriel again. Paid my tailors bill. This ... another of his platoon have developed measles, so his release from quarantine will be delayed again. He ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:26am

7. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

   Maresfield Park Sunday 30/12/17 Dear Gertrude This will be my last 1917 letter. Have naturally not ... snapshots. I don't know what they will be like- films are very hard to get & they are not making my ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:33am

8. Letter from Thornton, Gordon Stanley

   Railways as a military proposition and to leave the strikers out in the cold. Next they will conscript the ... rations & quarters- which will be a great saving to the govt. In France every man of military age is ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:57am

9. Letter from Crawford, Norvin Smith

   despair. It is of course only this past month or 6 weeks that I could write- but perhaps you will ... understand and I will, now that I have told it all to you, be able I think to write her. Of all the boys ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:14pm

10. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    of all, you will want to hear how we celebrated Xmas. Well, we waited up for Santa on Xmas eve- ... till the other fellows' cakes get a bit scarcer. I [?] a taste of Mrs. Morris- and will take her ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Feb 17 2023 - 2:26pm