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1. Letter from Dennison, Gordon Joshua

   to-day and she says that it has been raining there almost every day. That sure is a great country ... went out and got some cobs and brought them into the barracks. There we cooked them on two irons pluged ... spoiled. I got some pictures of myself around some of these planes and also one of the whole flight 57. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:20am

2. Letter from Weeks, Ludlow Jackson

   have I wish you would send me some snaps that you would think I'll like to have. Some of camp ... bother I ought to be getting some mail in a week or so now. I haven't got any yet. You had better ... number the letters you send me as some may go astray coming over. I think all go O.K. going to Canada. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 4:43am

3. Letter from Davey, John Vernon

   sure had a good time, played quite a lot of tennis & did some swimming, which was about all to do ... except shave. This letter writing on my part has been very poor but will be writing every week now, & ... Canada, but am hoping for some soon also this cigarette business, haven't had any at all out here ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 1:42am

4. Newspaper Article from Simpson, Thomas Nesbit

   Salisbury Plain and it was a great review. First the king came and inspected the men in the ranks, some ... We have been on the ranges every day for two weeks, firing about two thousand rounds a day. It is ... only about fifteen miles to the ranges and back and believe me it is some walk. We have been issued ...

   Editor - May 30 2022 - 7:26am

5. Letter from Stubbs, Robin Anthony

   white starched collars. I don’t know what the women were wearing since every dress seems different—some ... us thoroughly enjoyed the day and John said it would be interesting to see if in some months our ... through town and being Sunday some of the natives were decked out in all their splendour making a very ...

   Editor - May 30 2023 - 10:26am

6. Letter from Gullen, William Roy

   bunch of boys in our room 4 beds in the room we have some troops from Winnepeg and Toronto and Ottawa ... leave the cars at all hope you are working to hard try and cut out some of it was glad we went to the ... we saw were very some very good well kept up fences and buildins something like the buildings the ...

   Editor - Sep 2 2024 - 5:21pm

7. Letter from Thorburn, Howard Beverley

   the best hits from the shows I've seen and some of them are mighty good. The Col. wasn't ... give us leave to get our kit but the dirty old slob told us to come back every night. To hang with it ... Am sending you some music from it. We are going to "A little bit of fluff" and "London ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:01pm

8. Letter from McLellan, William John

   5 hours every day doing some kind of work. A few shells came over once in awhile but nothing very much. ... newsletters this AM & am expecting some from home tomorrow. I got two parcels of magazines from Marg and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:32pm

9. Letter from Moore, Joseph Lorne

   I found he wasn't busy right then, but he asked me if I could come back some other time when I was ... every day, so I wrote him and told him that was because I live like one, which is no baloney. Say, how ... about some snaps of you two, and Gwen too, if possible? Is she with you yet? I don't remember ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:49am

10. Poem from Maloney, Maurice Melville

    evening care Nor Sergeant-Majors peg them every way they turn; Four days' C.B.- and envied chores to ... the grave. Perchance some weary clerk, in straying from the road, Implores the passing tribute of ... bones shall rot. And some years hence when on remembrance day Upon a wooden cross beneath yon scraggly ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:39am