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1. Diary from Stewart, David Morrison

   5th Parade for 2 hours before dinner. Got passes and went to town. Went to stores and got some ... things. Had a walk in Government Park. Sent silver leaves to father and Aunt Katie. Cape Town has some ... Office, Government buildings and some churches and stores. Most of the streets are stone and sandy but ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:49am

2. Letter from Pecover, William Markle

   been for some weeks.   What do you think of Russia? Really I sometimes think every thing goes against ... right again.   You must have had some excitement during some of these air raids, and they will most ... us. I'm perfectly certain the war won't last long now. It will just finish up suddenly some ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

3. Letter from MacKay, Gordon Rae

   Every one at schools on pass in quarantine & everywhere else was called up & armed, ready to ... move at a moments notice we were not even allowed to undress to go to bed. We know not what the cause ... after the war so if you get a chance to hear Mr Herbert Garrison don't miss it. Say every letter ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:02pm

4. Letter from Scherer, George Leslie

   routine is. Well [reville?] sounds at 6 A.M. every man has to roll out. By 6.30 we have to be dressed ... water). Then we have more drill from 1.45 till 4.30 when we are dismissed for the day & allowed to go ... uptown. Every man has to be in by 9.30 but we don't have to be present for supper unless we wish. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:14am

5. Letter from McNeill, John

   you every day, but nothing has reached me yet, We have just got back from the front line trenches ... soaking him the limit every chance they get, we have had good weather up till lately but it has now turned ... cant write about the war, or what we are doing, or where we are, as it is not allowed, so that all we ...

   Editor - Oct 4 2022 - 4:05pm

6. Letter from Leighton, Alice and Arthur

   some envelopes and just a little billet doux. I'm sorry the M.D. you saw doesn't know your ... the papers nearly every day during the last month. I loved your dear letter, my pal, that you call ... a sermon. I wanted to know all your ideas about such things and I treasure every word of it. All my love and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:53pm

7. Letter from Weeks, Ludlow Jackson

   "X"+"Y" battery complete in every detail and I was a signaller. I had an awfully nice horse but if ... periodically. Nearly every fellow I knew went to France last week and for a while I felt deuced lonesome. Out of ... training and some with no training at all. Witter Archibald went and his brother. Oh if I only was 19. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:17am

8. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

   here on this hauling job. The weather here gets warmer every day and although we get a little rain ... nearly every day it dries up as fast as it falls and you could not tell there had been a rain in an hour ... doubt a lot will be discharged on account of ill health and some I presume will get back to Canada. Well ...

   Editor - Jan 31 2022 - 2:14pm

9. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

   together nearly every day at some time or other. Pop Gleeson is here with us still as well as ever. The ... other boys are all from Winnipeg or east of that. I am feeling fine lately in fact every one says I am ...

   Editor - Jan 31 2022 - 4:11pm

10. Letter from Pecover, William Markle

    a letter from home, or from any one in fact. I wonder what is the matter with every-one, or with the mails. ... Argyle gets two or three every night & parcels galore. I did not get either of the parcels from home ... usual in the cold & wet. Today there has been quite a snowstorm all day which has left every thing ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm