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1. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

   up every day now and go outside for a walk two or three times a day. Except for a kind of weak ... town and see some of the sights and perhaps then will be able to send some cards. I am enclosing some ... a picture taken and will send you some. These snaps are not good but are all I have so will have to try and ...

   Editor - Jan 31 2022 - 10:52am

2. Letter from Baird, Gavin Gibson

   "shows" we were on. Every night that it was possible to fly we flew, and dropped bombs and used our ... they were fired, but we were under the impression that they were connected in some way and that his ... impression that they were connected in some way. As a matter of fact, we found out after the war was over ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:19am

3. Letter from Richardson, Charles Douglas

   up some of our school-day friends who are in training there. A brother of my brother-in-law- can you ... me, personally, for I would not allow you to do that for me. They are no good second hand. I would ... like to enclose some for you too but I know I would get my ears slapped by wireless if I did. I was ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:09pm

4. Letter from Lakefield College School Collection

   from some one at the Grove. They come to the trenches at rations time every night. We came out last ... Germans every time. They shell us or send trench mortar bombs over. Lordy, how I hate those blessed trench ... things were to burst in the middle of the football field it would shatter every window in the school. ...

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

5. Letter from Bell, James Bond

   some nice snow storms about now. It is fairly warm here but has sure been plenty wet as per usual. ... I haven't written for some time but there isn't anything to say that I can tell you anyway. Nothing ... through the course all over again. It seems I just miss every bloody draft that goes. Ken Cooper is here ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:06pm

6. Letter from McLellan, William John

   altogether now. And I had some luck too for the day I got back to the B'n, they came out of the line for ... I enjoyed and am still enjoying every article in them but you can be I'm living high these days. Then ... like a Xmas tree and believe me it was some load out we only had 8 or 10 miles to go so I made it ...

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

7. Letter from Law, John William

   all the farms laid out just so, some farmhouses with thatched roofs and the grass and trees were very ... tunnels and Stations every few miles. The camp is made up of small huts about the size of the one up at ... hardly believe it either. The leave has started and some men in the section are away now on six days ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:40am

8. Letter from Dennison, Gordon Joshua

   and had to fill it up at every filling station and the distributor cap cracked and it began to misss ... black. Well Auntie and I went to see Casa Loma on Saturday it sure is some place boy oh boy. It took ... these airplanes he sure makes some nice ones. I took a role of film while I was there but haven't ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:31am

9. Letter from Sanderson, Perry Hooper

   these days. The Englishman in Canada, every place we went in Canada would say " Wait, my boy, till ... look, the more they soak you. Example: some article-charged me three pence for five cent bottle ink; ... so we get some idea of the trenches first handed. We see lots of aeroplanes as they are scouting ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:09am

10. Letter from Duke, Lancelot de Sausmarez

    course we have all we want and more. Our machines burn petrol at the rate of 10 gallons for every hour ... the air for an hour is £ 30 including every-thing- wear & tear petrol etc etc. and when a machine ... of ours is lost or brought down it means a loss of £25,000 to the nation. There are some figures for ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:08pm