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1. Letter from Neville, Shorey Johnson

   owners. The place is crowded every evening that the weather is fit. If it happens to rain there is some ... to gather up the pieces for interment. One afternoon we were paraded some distance to a football ... sitting back in comfort, not even knowing there was anything going on. I am seeing some soldiering, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:07am

2. Letter from Gordon, Alexander MacLennan

   definite; everyone had heard the alarming news. Presently orders were issued that some of the ambulance ... in, and slept. Next morning I did nothing more exciting than censor some letters, never dreaming that ... next door, and soon the work commenced. Wounded men began to arrive, some, able to walk, others in ...

   Editor - Jan 3 2024 - 8:06am

3. Letter from Brown, Robert Gordon

   many in the 46th- over half of them were Queen's students, some of them particular friends of ... them. The majority of them are from Vancouver- well-educated fellows, some of them lawyers, a great many ... bank clerks and some college fellows. There are a good many Queen's graduates among them and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:28pm

4. Letter from Johnson, Thomas William

   you will wake soon, I will write you some little news about my doings. This is my first letter to be ... come for some time however, for I should have been given a slip for the Quarter Master, with "I to ... quit. These I am enclosing are some I got here. They are not as good as some I have sent, but they are ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:39pm

5. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   allowance, so you will get $50.00 per month plus the $22.00 for Mary, total $62, and I get a straight $8.00 ... rascal will go through a stage where we will wish some of her shyness had lingered longer! I now have at ... it. One of the ingredients was some of your sliced lemons. For desert, we had "golden ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 12:26am

6. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   Xmas a year ago. It will be a hard blow to his family, No doubt you will have given me some details in ... fellow. I gather from your letters that some of the lads who drift in with Gertrudes friends are not quite ... with a genuine respect and appreciation of Music. The radio, these days, if allowed to run wild, does ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 2:02am

7. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   you get the heating problem solved- I just wish I could get at it- However perhaps some of Eric ... Orders last week, so as soon as they get around to it, your wife's allowance will be increased by ... fact that there were some 85 R.C.E. officers ahead of me on the seniority list in the Cdn Army ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:15am

8. Letter from Moore, Joseph Lorne

   least one of the surrounding mountains is afire every night. The grass is three to five feet high. Yes, ... are still hot & dusty. We could stand a bath every day if we could get the water. I clean up every ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:45am

9. Diary from Stewart, David Morrison

   it was only ringing on account of the fog. Thick fog all around. Bell rang every minute till Army ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:47am

10. Letter from McNeill, John

    has passed in that time, comrades and friends gone, some killed, some wounded, Home ties broken, and ... battle, every day and every night of that time, amid the continual booming of guns, I begin to wonder if ... working parties I believe there will be some kind of a concert in the evening, it will be a novelty having ...

    Editor - Oct 4 2022 - 4:26pm