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1. Letter from Winterbottom, Sydney Amyas

   France (Passchendaele) Oct. 30, 1917 Dear Dad and Mum: This is the first letter I have written ... that was all. However to make up I’ll try to make a decent letter out of this. First of all thanks ever ... you will send me some Velvet Joe tobacco as Old Chum almost burnt my tongue off. No. I am not starving ...

   Editor - Oct 4 2022 - 8:37am

2. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   becoming convinced I was born under a lucky star. Out of the thousands of letters Canadians send home to ... November 17, 1941 Dear Mom, Do you remember a letter I wrote to you early last winter telling you ... still doesn’t seem real. I have composed another poem which I am also sending you. I have entered it in ...

   Editor - Jan 1 2023 - 8:48am

3. Letter from Brown, Jack Malcolm

   off any stunts. I am sending you one of his field cards and a letter card as a souvenir. Well give my ... France Nov. 19th/17. Dear Sister: Your ever welcome letter rec'd all O.K. I was expecting it ... It is the worst imaginable up there, and I can assure you I never want to go to that country again. ...

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

4. Letter from Moore, Joseph Lorne

   Alliford Bay B.C. April 14, 1944 Dear Mom and Dad--- I was very glad to receive your letter and am ... plentiful as one would suppose and what there is really goes fast. You have no idea what this climate does ... etc., I can get a letter and read it and shove it into my writing kit thinking of answering it that same ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:41am

5. Letter from Gill, Leslie Francis

   people get theirs OK, but you and I just arent lucky. There’s a new system now, whereby we can send for ... letter #73 HMCS Iroquois c/o GPO London Feb 4/45 My Darling I seem to have come to the end of that ... up there. When I was home I was so happy with you, Im afraid I neglected him. He mentioned it that ...

   Editor - Aug 1 2023 - 12:36pm

6. Letter from Cobourg World

   Campbellford, in a letter tells of the good spirits of the boys at the front. He says: People at home think that ... everything over here is hard work and everything is on the dark side, but believe me, there is the sunny side ... we are taking, there would be nothing to it, whatever. So don't get it in your head that we ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:52pm

7. Letter from Lakefield College School Collection

   would rather be there then here I suppose you would like to know something about my regt. I have been ... they would not send me. The Company left here for Crowford about two months ago. I was offered this ... there is some chance of us going over this month. I hope it is as I am getting sick of staying over in ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:10pm

8. Letter from MacCausland, Vincent Sanford

   Feb 22 / 42 Bramcote Dear Lily I wrote mother the other night and lo & behold the letter is ... airmail postage. There is really no further news to add to mothers chatter but since I usually make ... a habit of a couple of letters home per week I took up the pen to write Estelle. your letter popped out ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:41pm

9. Letter from Jackson / Clark Family

   Dear Mother & Dad: Very glad to receive your air mail letter of 23 Sept 43 the other day and also ... appreciated. Could you tell me how much it cost in Canadian currency to send it to me. You know that whatever ... it costs, you are to take it out of my assigned pay. I don't think I shall have to send for any ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 7:11am

10. Letter from Johns, Lawrence Earl

    letter that if I had no money she would send some. tell her I have plenty. 50 francs to-day and 4, left ... your letter last week with eight others and was very glad to hear from you although I had a job to read ... some traveling have they not. I see by your letter that the picture of the Battle of the Somme is to be ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:08pm