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1. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   whether you have got an allowance or not. So now we get only 1 lb. 15 shs. every fortnight instead of ... that someday our very lives- and the lives of others, may depend upon us remembering some little thing ... he is the only one to suffer for it but in a bomber, the whole crew suffers because he forgot some ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:01pm

2. Letter from Loney, Edward (Ted)

   have some more. Well I have been here three weeks now and every thing is going fine. We go into the ... snaps are all good and very much appreciated. At long last I have some to send home. Next week I hope to ... shops at 8 every morning and out as 12, back again at 1:30 until 5:30 which finishes the day for us. At ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:27pm

3. Diary from Stewart, Walter F.

   June 27- Some of Strange's troops arrived, more coming in every day. Quite a garrison of ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:57am

4. Letter from Martyn, William Wallace Haig

   sends some quite often. You would be surprised the number we get through standing by. My six months ... a time now. New uniforms now only have gold lace half way around the sleeve! Down south we were allowed ... a steak for over ten months- have some for me and tell me the sensation. Willy still weighs 190, so he ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:21am

5. Letter from Teer, Arthur George

   been out here nearly 7 weeks now & have been doing some very good work being complimented by our ... especially when "Old Fritz" is "straffing" & starts throwing some of his "big ... Germans. We are not allowed very much time to write. So I hope you will excuse my briefness & try & ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:06am

6. Letter from Buckley, Douglas George

   bed, and I wont be allowed up for some time yet, as the doc says the slightest exertion might put me on ... the blink and affect some other joint. One wrist is enough the way this one acts. This is not a bad ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:32am

7. Letter from Lane, Daniel Austin

   would allow me] and was rewarded with a bowl of it in its warm condition, a beverage which I used to ... is assist. adjutant in some battalion. He came over to arrange a baseball-game with our team, which ... furniture we have is the ground with some very dusty chaff upon it. It serves very well for sleeping, ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:06pm

8. Letter from Johns, Lawrence Earl

   lines to let you know I am well and not forgetting to write you every week. I have not had any letters ... every week. I am in a very nice dugout at time of writing but will go out on post at midnight untill ... know but thank goodness the most of it is going the right way (Fritz) We have heard some rumors that ...

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

9. Letter from Irwin, Harold Lawrence

   every day here sense we came down, it rains a fue minutes & then the sun will shine a fue minutes ... loose my good job when he goes, I might be back to Vancr a week from Saterday, some one was saying that ... there is some of us going back then, so I guess I will be one. Gee it is a lonesome town some time ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

10. Diary from Duffy, Reginald Carl Francis

    orchard of palm trees. The climate is intensly hot, and a wind apparently is not allowed. Operations ... w.o.p., only so I'm roving captain and take a crew whose captain is u/s for some reason or other. ... So we arrived at Naples some ten minutes late but bombed anyway. The air craft engines acted well all ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:07pm