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1. Letter from Cobourg World

   of the men on board. Things are kept in a very sanitary condition and an inspection takes place every ... every night there is boxing bouts and the night before last, the winners were presented with prizes. We ... get an inkling of the news every day by wireless. The instrument catches it in transmission; but our ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 30 2021 - 4:00pm

2. Letter from Cox, Bertram Howard

   called every night to the next of kin. I'll try to find out some information as regards the trunk ... here, just for one night to see the illuminations. It's a regular Nov. 5th every night on the ... true, I could not see my hand in front of my face, consequently, we all got lost. She was some trip.! If ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Nov 16 2021 - 2:51pm

3. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

   10 to wait for some oranges I had ordered. Billy had been better Friday and Saturday. He is up and ... dressed every day, but the pain comes about 4.30 p.m. & he usually goes to bed- all but the last ... I wait to make up a little box for the kiddies to send you.- Billy's "papers" & some ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:38am

4. Letter from Johnson, Thomas William

   Every discomfort is common to us all. We share alike a common danger. If one is wet through and muddy ... rest, so are the odd dozen or fourteen men who share with him the same tent. If one man wakes up some ... night to find that lice are eating him up, every other man, despite every effort to remain singular, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:51pm

5. Letter from Irwin, Harold Lawrence

   But hope you don’t dissown me, & let me come back to Vancouver some day, if I live through this ... [?] as soon as I can find it possable to do so, I told her every thing befor we where married, about ... a month untell the war was over, I told her every thing from first to last, and all she did was to put her ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

6. Letter from Gill, Leslie Francis

   Firstly, before I forget to tell you – don’t bother about the rubbers for Betsy. Mum and I saw some in ... Mission Auxiliary had a dinner here, and the drawing for that $50.00 you had some tickets on ... don’t get leave at Christmas – I get disappointed every morning when I wake up and find you’re not here, ...

   Editor - Jul 30 2023 - 3:01pm

7. Diary from Andrews, Alfred Herbert John

   in my stomach for a few days after we arrived at Tidworth. Some of the boys were detailed for duty at ... lines were occupied by the 10th Battalion. The only bed I could find in our hut had some equipment on ... I was to be his partner in trouble for some months. Next day I was elevated to the rank of ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Apr 3 2023 - 11:08am

8. Letter from Turner, Arthur Lawrence

   to lose some skin from my shins I am not sure how. The hurt was trivial and I ignored it for a week ... we carried the things for 3 ½ hours, exploring nearly every part of the front line for quite an area. ... We had to walk along trenches up to our knees in mud in places and also go over some very rough ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Oct 12 2022 - 2:01pm

9. Letter from Davis, William Worth

   it and mine. My left hand got rather a bad squeeze but my ring saved it although I lost some skin. It ... having an afternoon off, is not allowed at any time without pass, I don’t want to go out very often, but ... when I do, I do. All the hospitals here are not treated this way. In some, the boys get three hours ...

   Editor - Feb 1 2023 - 12:10pm

10. Letter from Moody, Cecil Tyrell

    Blighty, (England) if the case is bad enough. We evacuate every two days. A Red Cross train pulls up ... alongside the Hospital, and we load the stretchers on. The trains are all beautifully equipped- every ... surgical ward, we have some very interesting cases, although very sad. One poor fellow is covered with ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 5:43am