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1. Letter from Davis, William Worth

   here nearly every night for a while, write and then get to bed about 9.30. I don’t feel like going down ... town at night, and this is a little change and I am out in the air for five or ten minutes. Every night ... here there is a lecture, concert party, or some kind of amusement. When there is a concert party they ...

   Editor - Feb 2 2023 - 1:47pm

2. Letter from Cobourg World

   McKague gives an interesting account of some of the tests put up to the Mechanical Motor Transports: ... own-mine being a dandy Ford, and had every confidence in myself coming through London, as we did not go at ... Battalion is now in quarantine for measles, but I am out with my car every day driving officers. The weather ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 30 2021 - 4:04pm

3. Letter from DeGear, Gordon Alexander

   credit it but even when the artillery are in action they certainly turn out some pretty spick and span ... place is over run with it as nearly every body get it I think and very seldom use it. I am glad that ... rather easy now but I guess some day before long it will be go like the dickens again. If Russia was to ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:51am

4. Letter from Lakefield College School Collection

   think there are any other Grove boys now in training here, though there might well be some without our ... knowledge. We have neither of us seen the Grove for some time, but we remember very well the events that ... Lakefield have made a man of me, and I feel their value every day of my life. The army is very like school, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:10pm

5. Letter from Scherer, George Leslie

   dandy photos while some people (yours truly for instance) always make a fizzle of it- never took ... must be great to be able to get home every week-end and if the work isn't too hard the change sure ... I've done and every place I've been since I cam over here but there are little things I'm ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:28pm

6. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   go. I am going up to Inverness so watch out for some "rrrrrrrrr's" soon. How is ... it's pretty good with American money at a premium in Canada. Every night for the past two weeks I have ... and have started to write out some music for him. He heard that ‘Polka' of mine and was taken ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:30pm

7. Letter from Moody, Cecil Tyrell

   Dear Budsie: Well, I will tell you about my doings. Oh, say, can you believe it, some of us boys ... travelling mostly in second class, but for some reason, about 30 of us were put up in first class rooms, the ... 2 collapsible wash basins (with 2 clean towels every day), a writing desk, a chest of 8 drawers, a wardrobe, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 5:39am

8. Letter from Duke, Lancelot de Sausmarez

   is terribly cold here now but the sun I am glad to say comes out every day which makes things more ... R.F.C.  comes every morning at 8 am collects us all from the different billets & takes us to the ... the ground It is great fun- especially with some chaps who go up- for we are not strapped in at all ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:08pm

9. Letter from Stares, William James

   Chalk pit at Courcellette – 3 days and nights under a steady bombardment- Frits threw over every thing ... – How long this will last I do not know – Was very pleased to meet some of our Norwood Boys.- Wilbert ... to steady ones nerves. We met every time an opportunity presents itself and have enjoyed many ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

10. Letter from Harber, T. Lloyd

    etc and our dear old England eh. I’ll bet some of them are pretty raw if they are anything like the ... every ten feet in most of the towns that we have passed through. A good name for it is scorched earth. ... old England eh. I’ll bet some of them are pretty raw if they are anything like the ones I could tell ...

    Editor - Nov 20 2023 - 10:15am