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1. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

   3rd and came back to a little village some 20 miles behind the lines where we are in billets. Our ... do some figuring to get it, usually after dark but among us we manage to get plenty to keep a good ... of postcards of the Somme front. I suppose we will not be allowed to send them from here but will be ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:31am

2. Letter from Teer, Arthur George

   horses we are not allowed any lights & must not leave camp. It is nearly five months since I have ... in splendid condition & I hope we shall soon be leaving for the front. We see some very pitiable ... Belgium Refugees. They are mostly of the better class & tell some terrible stories about their ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:08am

3. Letter from Stares, William James

   some time, I generally write as soon as I read the letters. Along with your letter, came one from Karl, ... think. You certainly are having Some Winter here is nothing but Rain, Mud, and Wind, but the days are ... having strict orders to treat them like one of ourselves infact we are not allowed to call them ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

4. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

   no end to see how stupid the Americans were in allowing the dirty little Jap monkeys to catch them so ... have at last been shocked into action, but what a price to pay. It must really make some Canadians sit ... which Beverley Baxter interviewed Major McNaughton. On some of his views, I think he missed the mark by ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

5. Letter from Gray, Robert Hampton

   babies doing well but was shocked to hear about Betty Grimes. What a shame it is. I suppose some men get ... I ever could before about my work as you can see by the address. (By the way we are not allowed to put ... some of your cooking again, Mother. Still if our present successes continue maybe the war won’t last ...

   Editor - Jul 14 2022 - 7:55am

6. Letter from Winterbottom, Sydney Amyas

   tent for lectures, and some trenches and fortified mounds to throw th bombs from. We didn’t throw any ... Gee! Though it is funny how some guys will play the fool even with bombs. For instant one silly ass was ... I received a nice letter from Ursie. You know she wrote me some time ago and enclosed a fine pair of socks. ...

   Editor - Sep 30 2022 - 7:58am

7. Letter from Robertson, Charles Eric

   I had to go up to Adastral House yesterday to see about some allowances of mine which had not been ... 700 or 800 now. That gives you some idea as to how the R.F.C. as a whole has grown. I had one little ... the Thames Valley. Nothing but mist and rain every day. I haven’t been in the air for over a week. ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

8. Letter from Scherer, George Leslie

   subject for it wouldn't have helped things out any. I feel ashamed of myself every time I think of ... expressing herself and I can't help taking the letter out and reading it every now and then. She ... a paper some time ago and intended sending you but the book I was carrying it in got lost and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:54am

9. Letter from Leighton, Alice and Arthur

   often you wrote and when I said 'every day' she had a 'that's all very well for ... a story' sort of look, but now when they do come every day or two every other day, she is lost in ... back again, and there would be some preliminaries anyway before you got a new job. However I'm not ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:54pm

10. Letter from Scatcherd, John Labatt

    whole thing apart, that is undo every buckle and takeoff every strap, all the loose parts are then ... of the class has had some experience in one or more branches of the work which we are taking up while ... and I work hard every night, Saturday afternoon and Sunday, on our books, and if we should not pass ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:05pm