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1. Letter from Sedgwick, Arthur Louis

   I've been writing home have apparently never arrived there. I have been writing every week. Some of ... a parcel from her last week and it certainly was nice to receive it. It looks like some of the letters ... them were airgraphs and air letters, but it looks like some of those air letters aren't any faster ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 6:36am

2. Letter from McQueen, Alexander Robertson

   have only got one letter since we left Montreal. I haven’t been writing every day but there should be ... over some of the French line. We were down near Armentieres just on the Belgian border. The trenches ... Leicesters, the R.R.R’s, the R.B’s and some of the Indians.  I have never felt better in my life than I do ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

3. Letter from Gullen, William Roy

   over to an estate of some big guns, had a field to ourselves had races drills and lunch, two of us ... ferns heather thick grass furs tamrack I got some pitch to chew and some berries like our thimbles not ... as good saw a herd of cows looked like your folk’s cattle we walked through a pine grove every stick ...

   Editor - Aug 31 2024 - 1:47pm

4. Letter from Evans, Stanley William

   some one els I don’t mind it for a while but I like a little time of to dream about you and home. ... a weeks pack drill. Ok well whats a little drill just take your mind of some things I like to dream of but ... be with you then I would do a year without kicking about it to much. There has been some of the boys ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

5. Letter from Evans, Stanley William

   some one els I don’t mind it for a while but I like a little time of to dream about you and home. ... a weeks pack drill. Ok well whats a little drill just take your mind of some things I like to dream of but ... be with you then I would do a year without kicking about it to much. There has been some of the boys ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

6. Diary from Dawkins, Arnold F.A.

   a talk on the 2nd Army’s activities in Tunis. For some unknown reason the chains were taken off at 4 pm. ... training in the nearby fields seem a sloppy lot. On every parade we are amused by a chubby Fr. Canuck. Tue ... Apr 6, 1943: Another hot day. I went to the Advertising class. Washed some clothes. A heavy downpour ...

   Editor - Apr 20 2022 - 3:44pm

7. Letter from Forbes, Donald M.

   man out of every 5 between the ages of 20 and 35 or around aged 45 single. They took about 140 from ... this place but only 2 or 3 of them go to war. Some of them get exempt from physical disability and the ... $2,00 every thing costs like sixty. I like the people very well have been so one party and enjoyed ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:17pm

8. Letter from Bell, William Henry

   England June 16-17. Dear brother & Sister and every one I hope you are well as this leaves me, ... used oh you bet I would like to have my feet under some Canadian Table for a little while again but ... start the match Then you see them run from every where with peaces[sic] of paper[?] another Thing we get ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:27pm

9. Letter from Cobourg World

   desolation on every side, you would indeed think that you were blessed. It will take many a year to restore ... this country to a state that it was before the war. On every side you can see ruined buildings, torn ... billets. not all, sad to relate, some have answered their last roll call, as many more poor lads will ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 30 2021 - 4:06pm

10. Letter from Johns, Lawrence Earl

    also in the same platoon as I am. Elmer McFalls comes in to see me every day now he has a touch (of) ... dysentary and has to come down to the M.O.(Medical Officer) every day and as his office is near me Elmer ... I hear there is Canadian mail for to-morrow so maby there will be some for me then. The working parties ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:03pm