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1. Letter from Gordon, Alexander MacLennan

   battalion. Every hut has its roof and sides covered with corrugated iron, and rests on a series of brick ... pillars some eighteen inches high. Inside, the huts are lined with thick building paper, and in spots the ... same paper serves as carpet. Some of the huts are divided into compartments; ours nearly all consist of ...

   Editor - Jan 3 2024 - 8:05am

2. Diary from Wilson, Andrew

   Ordinary routine drill every day. Training hard in arm drill and P.T. for the coming ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:18am

3. Diary from White, Herbert Hill

   Oct. 20-21-22-23- Worked every day under shell fire and bombed at nights in camp. Army WWI Europe ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:32pm

4. Letter from Dureault, Louis

   R.W.C.H. C.A.O. July 8, 1945 Dearest Dad, Mother Bro & Sis. Hello everybody how's every ... every body at home may e I wasn't there in body but I sure was in spirit and soul. I also received ... health a big Hello to every body in Wolseley for me. From you Son & Bro. who loves you all dearly and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 6:56am

5. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

   rains all day every day. There is nothing much doing here and things are awful slow. The new army are ... per usual here and a few Canadians keep leaving here every now and again. I have heard nothing ... every so often as a prevention. Well Mother I will ring off now as I have nothing to write about. ...

   Editor - Feb 1 2022 - 4:54pm

6. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   and this he has placed at my disposal. Every morning about 10 I go down with a corporal to buy my ... afternoon he lets me have it and is quite put out if I walk at all. He is only 43, every inch a soldier, and ... some hard work. Well the outcome of it all was that he wanted me to take the car and entertain a couple ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:24pm

7. Diary from Beer, Lewis Herbert

   May 28. Quite cool, dull but no rain. Visited every bit of the line at night with [page missing] ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:13am

8. Letter from Broome, George Albert Charles

   price we paid was one shilling, we are not allowed very much now I daresay you have seen by the papers ... the boys are growing some strappers the Vicar's Son here Captain Jepsom had his leg blown off out ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:25am

9. Letter from MacKay, Gordon Rae

   Never fear the war won't last for ever and we will all be placed on the one level some day again. ... Then is when I tell Mr. Nicolson just what I think of him a bit plainer than I am allowed to do at ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:58pm

10. Letter from Watson, William Douglas

    writing. Well the only thing I can do is offer two excuses. 1st (and foremost), we're allowed six of ... a few things I need-a comb, some H.B. & 1H pencils and a decent sharpener, as there's ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 9:11pm