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1. Diary from Dawkins, Arnold F.A.

   Wed Oct 14, 1943: Weather still cool. Some of the Repats left to-day and the remainder are to go ... to-morrow. Thur Oct 15, 1943: All the Royal Army Medical Corp fellows left for home to-day and were allowed ...

   Editor - Apr 20 2022 - 3:45pm

2. Letter from Carry On: Letters in War-Time

   others—I and the sergeant were the only two to get out all right. Men who have been out here some time have ... of our faith being tested—one begins to ask strange questions here when he sees what men are allowed ...

   Editor - Jul 31 2022 - 8:20am

3. Letter from Loney, Edward (Ted)

   welcome as we can't get any here and nearly every body you meet asks you if you have any. I had ... address. I also had a box from Gram with a couple of pairs of socks, some cheese & crackers, some more ... soap & some raisins. As far as soap is concerned you don't need to send any as we are issued ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:43pm

4. Letter from Senton, Claude

   better place in every way, warmer, later shows, etc. Grandad enjoyed the East ay? So the Gordons may ... I'll sign over another ten. The war looks like an ending some day I know of that farm idea we are told ... we know all the dope, a few farmer lads here from Saskatchewan- some has been bailed out, some dried ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 12:26pm

5. Letter from Quinlan, Dennis John

   a wonderful experience. I think we go to some place in the North of Scotland where we train some more at an ... sure. All we will be actually paid before going over is our $5.00 a day living allowance- which will no ... course is very sudden and rather haphazard but it will have to do. Really I would have liked some time in ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:55pm

6. Letter from Bell, William Robert

   allowing them thru because they take up so much shipping space. How are you folks doing anyway. I guess ... good days with Elmer in London and we took some pictures which I hope he sends me before he returns to ... Canada—if he does so soon. I wrote him the other day asking him to send me some ukele strings to keep up our ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:13pm

7. Letter from Liddiard, Walter

   we did see it seems to be some real up to date city. As I said on the [?] they don't allow us ... some country since I left you. The first part in the Rockies was very mountainous and heavily wooded, ... with lots of streams and lakes, and snow pretty deep. On some parts of the land we had to pass through ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 4:47am

8. Letter from MacKay, Gordon Rae

   afternoon. I expect I will be up for a while every day now. Then some day I will try a whack at the crutches ... or three cribbage players also. We had some great sport a few nights ago when a convoy came in from ... ones in the ward & with only one nurse & one orderly to do it. Here they had to have every ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:04pm

9. Letter from Cobourg World

   the clothes we had off except when taking a bath. Still, we put in some good times while on that boat. ... except when sleeping, and they were an awful nuisance. No light of any kind was allowed to be shown at ... looked very much like some of Lingard's cabs, but over here they call them carriages, and when they ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:26pm

10. Letter from Shortreed, Robert

    to be a day of sports being our 2nd Division and an American 42nd Division so I stopped for some of ... a great deal of trouble. They had some big league players. On the night of the 23rd I with about 30 others ... gone. However that is only a start and it will be some time yet before we will be on our way home. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:43am