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1. Letter from Polson, Archibald John

   Patrol duty. We had to look after some rich womans estate about 3 miles from here. We were to see that no ... soldiers damaded her property. Some soldiers broke down a tree on her place or something like that and now ... we will be shooting there every day this week. We have to walk about three miles to the ranges with ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:41pm

2. Letter from Richardson, Charles Douglas

   to see us yesterday. They are now found in nearly every camp around here. We were billeted within ... think of it while we were there or I could have seen him. I saw some other fellows I knew from the same ... at aeroplanes. Some days it is so different. It seems to go in spasms. I hope seeding is going better ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:41pm

3. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

   am getting out every day. My knees are quite stiff yet & can't bend them very well, have to ... every morning, but without sugar, so now am enjoying porridge fine with Billy's sugar. ... a little, but it was fine & the cake is really splendid, the best I think you have made- I gave some to ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:36am

4. Letter from Moody, Cecil Tyrell

   closest to the front line that our cars have ever run. Some of the stretcher bearers were telling me last ... he can undoubtedly see ours. But on this sector, as in Vimy, and for some time in the Somme, neither ... wild flowers and almost every day I pick a bunch and decorate the car. Up where we are going tonight we ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 5:20am

5. Letter from Hudgins, John

   this doing my bit or pushing up daisies some where in France. Well three more huts of the quarantined ... break out.  38 days today since we came in the last time.  Going some eh?  They are sending another ... I won’t pass in drill easy enough and there are drafts going from there every day or so.  Of course we ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

6. Letter from Irwin, Harold Lawrence

   I ever do, then try and save anove to take her to Canada on 50 ¢ a day, some job what do you say. I have ... not been down to Foldestone for over a month now, staying at home every night & trying to be good, ... I have been a lettle sick, But am some better now hope to be all O.K. Monday, Gee you should see the mud ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

7. Letter from Winterbottom, Sydney Amyas

   write, or wash, just "crumbed up" every day and said "cuss everything". Now I feel ... you send from home only some of them take such an awful long time to get here. I have heard twice from ... as its only a question of time that a fellow gets killed. Some are lucky and make a good ...

   Editor - Oct 3 2022 - 4:39pm

8. Letter from Davis, William Worth

   some in, and he has been conscripted. I nearly laughed myself sick, they are so funny. You tell Carmen ... Allen, and last week a peach of a pair of socks and some chocolate. By the way, thanks for those sox you ... some time ago, as you would see by the date. Am still in the same place as I landed day before ...

   Editor - Feb 6 2023 - 1:31pm

9. Letter from Hearle, Eric

   [???} at the station some ladies went round & gave every soldier a packet of cigeretts & matches ... cigrettes helped out some & "Zippeny" kept the fellows togheter. WE moved on & on& got ... more and often about 3 boxes of rapid [?] in being [?] sudden with rain some of the men dead [?] begin ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 12:06am

10. Letter from Robus, Walter Thomas

    killing a bunch of men with one shell & digging their graves at the same time. I got some souvenirs, ... a helmet, mauser rifle & some equipment from the germans, but we all dropped our finds, having quite ... comradeship is and you find out the qualities of every man. The boys acted like old soldiers and men and could ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:06pm