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1. Letter from Evans, Stanley William

   and come back and have my wife waiting at the door with a club in her hand asking me why I was late ... a DM trade here and with my electricity I think I have got something to keep us after this war is over ... do go out don’t get with the wrong ones please it ain’t healthy. But I have that feeling that you ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

2. Letter from Bridges, Jeannette "Nettie" Drysdale

   I wrote you last from London. Last Wednesday I had lunch at Prince’s with Fraser-Campbell and had such ... a nice time and that night Crocket & I had dinner at the Piccadilly with Keiller Mackay & a Capt. ... warm here, to-day in fact was awfully hot. The sisters all live in the same house with us, so we have ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

3. Letter from Bergquist, Arthur

   and arrived here at Toronto at 9 o’clock A Lieutenant was leaving Midland at 4 o’clock with the Chief ... go with them so I said that would be swell but I had to work until 5 o’clock, so I wouldn’t very well ... to see each other again. I stayed and talked with Rub until almost 11 o’clock and then I had to ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

4. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

   imagine us fellows on a big car with a heavy load getting along. Everybody gets out to push and they bring ... of all the boys joining up at home is the same all over Canada I am living mostly with a boy from ... I will close for now with lots of love to all Your travelling son Harold Army WWI Africa Letter from ...

   Editor - Jan 31 2022 - 12:00pm

5. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   a doubtful table laden with cheap “pots” (pardon, dishes), surrounded by a very hungry crowd waiting for the ... Saxons will not fight against us, and they have to be split up here and there with Prussian regiments.... ... all is quiet soon after ten. The entrance to Hyde Park looked quaint with a huge searchlight on top ...

   Editor - Mar 2 2022 - 4:00pm

6. Letter from Gray, John Balfour

   send the paper to me with name number, etc:             Royal Canadian Air Force             attached ... the way to Heston. On Saturday night we went to a dance at Hammersmith with Bob and Hilda Sheldon and ... married to a “raw boned English gal with big feet and beef to the heels.” There are some lovely girls over ...

   Editor - Jun 28 2022 - 3:50pm

7. Letter from Garton, Thomas

   with the car that day, but I suppose he could not get away, he would be busy at the Camp I wish I had ... the best as you say settled down by ourselves with no one to bother us we sure would be happy then ... I were to address them like that well I must ring off now. Bye-Bye with all my Love Yours only and ...

   Editor - Jul 8 2023 - 10:03am

8. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   immediately on a different machine. The other day I was over and had tea with my French family. It was quite ... we do most of our shoots with. A 9.2 inch and an 8 inch and a 6 inch howitzer. They are all fine ... well looked after. I hope Aunt Jean will get down with family. It is real nice at Mount Forest in the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:35pm

9. Letter from McArthur, John Alexander

   to go with him. I suppose you have skating and sleighing over in Can by now. It hardly ever freezes ... have lots of singing here and there are lots of concerts' in the Y. Someone has just arrived with ... Brock wants me to go down town with him so I will have to stop writing and get fussed up. You see it ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:47pm

10. Letter from McLellan, William John

    I had a shave & clean up & had supper & then went downtown with another guy from Toronto. We ... Chief took me out to see the sights- the old castle etc and we ended up with dinner at Fairleys. ... satisfied with everything. You feel at home here the minute you land- a fellow alone in London might as well ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:38am