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1. Letter from Darrach, Lee Grant

   if we can only keep it up. But my God, there is some awful looking sights coming back here every day ... hen’s teeth. I also sent you some photos in my second last letter. I wonder if you received them, also ... sent some home. Well, dear brother, I may not receive many more letters from you as I am in the next ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

2. Letter from Napier, Andrew John

   Canadian Exped Force, on the 1st of Sept. However as we required to give our firm some notice, ... & then presented each of us with a New Testament. Sewell is some 120 miles West of the Peg, and is ... purely a summer camp. There are some 10 to 12 thousand of us there and of us at present under canvas, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:41pm

3. Letter from Davis, William Worth

   look natural anyway. We are having some cool windy weather and I am in the first stage of one of my ... reasons. I don’t believe that I told you some time ago that our capacity had been increased 50% and of ... to be right after all. It’s funny, about that night you spoke of. for allowing for the difference in ...

   Editor - Feb 6 2023 - 11:01am

4. Letter from Skeet, Frank

   you'd have some time finding your own bunk. The first day or two we'd get lost anyhow. Some of them ... most wonderful boat I've ever been on. It was a coker. How they got us all fed they have some ... wonderful kitchens; the way we had to do, every table held 20 men, two mess orderlies to each table to wash ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 4:51pm

5. Letter from Pecover, William Markle

   each of you every week. Generally the parcels come some days after the letters that they were mailed ... of blockade, and manages to get some of our Canadian mail boats. I have been getting a letter from ... incessantly.   We see a great many aeroplanes,- dozens, every day, manoeuvring in the air. Often we see the ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

6. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   you file over with your mess tin. Of course, some houses are better than others, cleaner; and maybe ... village, every single house which I saw being shattered, the church in the square just having the four ... road where all the corner houses were smashed flat, a little wayside shrine, like you see in every ...

   Editor - Mar 7 2022 - 2:53pm

7. Letter from McNeill, John

   days that I am allowed anything to eat at all & its only a nibble I get at that, a bit of chicken ... & there is not so much bustling around, some of the sisters are Imperials, the rest are Canadians, ... seem to know all the big bugs going & can get all they want, when I wrote you last, I had every ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm

8. Letter from McNeill, John

   sergeants in this hut & we have all had some every morning in our porridge & it is not half done ... there was too much night work, it kept me till 10 or 10-30 every night writing up detail & lectures ... yet, it was funny the different advice I got from them as to what I should do with it, some wanted me ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm

9. Letter from Ross, James Wells

   The paymaster came tonight and his advent is always a matter of some moment. The men are allowed to ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:34pm

10. Letter from McArthur, John Alexander

    cured and allow the fighting men a chance to get back. Of course we have had a taste of civilization ... here and they haven't had any for some time so it would be quite fair. I'll bet Lee is glad ...

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