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1. Letter from Shaver, Clifford

   snowed nearly every day this week but it melts as fast as it falls most of the time, yesterday morning ... there was about an inch of snow on the ground but it was all gone shortly after sunrise. Some of the ... where we are going but I think our next move will be France. We go about nine miles out every morning to ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:51pm

2. Letter from Eardley, Thomas Ernest

   I hope that I wasn't posted missing before you get the card. We are allowed a post card every Sunday ... & a letter on the 1st & 15th of every month. I was captured at ypres on the 2nd of June, I only ... wish I know what happened to the rest of the Boys, some of them are here, but I think most of them were ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:12pm

3. Letter from Van Allen, Austin Newton

   some real training, I hope. We arrived last nite on a troop train carrying some 350 prospective air ... crew, every last one fed up with guard duty. Our barracks are in the stables of the former Eglinton Hunt ... Supper is at 4:30 & our evening hrs. run in three day cycles: first nite we are allowed out until ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:48pm

4. Letter from Johnston, William Joseph

   had too much of a start on ours. We are having some time here now we have been here for three weeks or ... so and I have not been on Parade one whole day yet they keep giving us some little job or another so ... allow even a scrap of paper lying about and that is why the British soldier is the cleanest fighting man ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 6:21pm

5. Letter from Willoughby, Dr. Charles James McNeil

   here today before carrying on our grand march and I am now anxiously waiting orders to be allowed to ... city- a train every hour. So I am going to see Brussels somehow or know the reason why. This has been ... a rather strenuous week indeed. We have not marched every day but we have had a good many long marches. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 11:23am

6. Letter from Senton, Claude

   sends some cigarettes about every three months like he did that's fine, we are to get 20 many here ... need now is razor blades, although we can buy some here, the cheap ones are O.K. for my beard. If Glen ... for north. Well be on leave again, end of month east of England & Wales. We are allow so many ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:44pm

7. Letter from Turner, Arthur Lawrence

   allowed to send picture postcards of our stopping places or of the neighbouring towns nor to describe any ... write about. I have developed a habit of getting supper nearly every evening at a house here. It is good ... weeks and we have had very little snow. There have been some beautiful moonlight nights too (full moon) ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Oct 12 2022 - 1:59pm

8. Letter from Cobourg World

   conditions. There is a squadron of aeroplanes stationed near here. They patrol this district every morning and ... even now. Every day at least a dozen trainloads of wounded pass through our camp. Folkstone, until last ... August, a famous seaside resort, is now a gigantic hospital. Every house, almost, has been taken over by ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:57pm

9. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

   all as disappointed as I am that circumstances won’t allow me to be with you this Xmas. However, we ... all have a great deal to be thankful for. At least we are all alive and well and there is every ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

10. Postcard from Dean, Harold Adelbert

    allowance to 3 shillings a day or about 73¢ per day. This he said would be paid monthly in Canada. We met ... London and can go there every night. I heard they held our first mail back so I suppose it is irregular ...

    Editor - Feb 2 2022 - 3:20pm