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1. Letter from MacKay, Gordon Rae

   somehow somewhere, some somes eh! Never mind kiddo we will be back in Old Canada soon where we can tell ... behold old Biggar was mentioned in it. Some land had been sold at $35 per acre or something. The O.T.C. ... Dickey that he should wash some clothes for me but he thinks by the time he gets his own washing done it ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:00pm

2. Letter from Reekie, George Abraham

   I could walk in there some day and you couldnt guess who I was, I am getting fat in here I had a letter ... next week for some where maybe Winnipeg. there was two fifty left there last week across the pond. One ... some are afraid they wont get home before they are called to go. They took a notion yesterday and isued ...

   Editor - Feb 2 2022 - 11:15am

3. Letter from Davis, William Worth

   another rumor says rioting and rebellion in London. We thought that the Sunday papers would give us some ... news, but there is not a word of it. Hope for some news in the morning tho. Poor Hornblower passed away ... for me. I get down nearly every afternoon and have a few minutes walk with Postie and then back to ...

   Editor - Feb 9 2023 - 10:12am

4. Letter from Beames, Henry Denys

   through the needless fears and mental pains, if not physical that some of the women over here have had to ... Ditchit soon and get some idea of where the best places to go are and make a few contacts, so that when ... some and I don’t want to waste any time over here where there is so so much to see. Some day, in ...

   Editor - Feb 25 2023 - 5:59am

5. Diary from Scales, Harold Wilcox

   Dec 28-Jan 3: at Fresnicourt all the time. Do a little fatigues every second day. Nothing doing on ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:46pm

6. Letter from Dickson, William Haslam

   Drill. I will tell you as near as I can of our routine of duty, every call is made by the bugle, so we ... Brigade reviue some of McKinleys staff is here and they want to pick out a Co for his body guard and ... the parade grounds some of the boys fell out on the way but when we got there we had to stand at ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:41am

7. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   Otterpool Camp July 31 1915 Dear Father, You people are certainly having some time of it. I have ... fine now. Getting up at 6:30 every morning is quite a change for me. However it is just as easy as ... the other girl is. I have met some very nice people since I came over here. Just up the road from our ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:26pm

8. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   sure that it is general. We have rain every day. It never misses once and if we have anything special ... had been preparing for it for some time. The men were all fussed up, clothes pressed and brushed, ... I can manage that. I have a very hearty invitation to spend some time in Dublin. I think I shall reserve ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:26pm

9. Letter from Trotter, Bernard Freeman

   I can't see my way to treating them as loosely as I know some people do. When I am away from my unit of ... magpies and sparrows of the John Bull variety. Yesterday, however, I saw some little birds on the ground ... little cubby-hole dining-room at 71 Bismarck, and the couch, decorated with some airing underwear- and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:20pm

10. Letter from Cobourg World

    now some fifteen miles back resting and getting reinforced up to strength. Just now, a Battalion, or ... proportion to our successes. They were rather considered slight compared with the work done. I had some views ... but when this firing had been going three or four minutes, I shook from head to foot. Every bit of ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:50pm