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1. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   long. It is rather terrifying when you think that every explosion means that some house or group of ... London. While I was up in Scotland I stayed at the Victoria League Club and went out every night. I met ... coming in from 5 directions at once and there was an average of three explosions every minute all night ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:38pm

2. Letter from Robertson, Charles Eric

   of the hardest work I have ever done in my life since coming to London and every night when I come ... me. The natural result is that from every one of my friends and relations I hear the same thing ... but in spite of my own inclinations I have to stint every one in the matter of news. The past week or ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

3. Letter from Davis, William Worth

   up fine about 5 P.M. I go down town nearly every day for an hour or two as I really need the air. ... businesses up here and put the men in the army or at some other work. Hardly seems fair tho. I think the next ... deliveries cannot be had. Some places girls are delivering it. Terribly shocked about Bessie Wilson’s death, ...

   Editor - Feb 9 2023 - 9:47am

4. Letter from Jones, Noble John

   make up a brigade every day I think we will have to see the thing through we are not Lord Roberts body ... of it the better you like it but every soldier I have ever seen it has been the reverse we certainly ... have had a pretty hard time of it in some ways marches and bad weather sleeping in the open for two ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:41am

5. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

   for the change and we enjoyed them. We have all been fortunate enough to get some parcels during my ... appreciate them. How much the letters from home and the old memories have helped some of us over here to ... maintain that manhood free from shame perhaps we ourselves scarcely realize. Almost every second night we ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:53am

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

   interesting, as we are allowed to say little concerning the voyage and everything is censored.   There are men ... I’m not allowed to. This letter would be much more interesting then.   In seventeen days the boys will ...

   Editor - Jul 30 2022 - 4:00pm

7. Letter from Pye, Frank Cyril

   ever. We sure are not having spring weather it has rained here every day this week, In many letters you ... some more just is big now, you didn't call around again to get some of Aunt Sally's wine. ... grapes, you sure was some climber. Aunt Annie was up for a day last week, she said she had wrote to you. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 7:00pm

8. Letter from Cook, Alfred Frank

   mention receiving the papers. I think I mention getting them every time they arrive. Perhaps some of my ... good time while you have the chance. I would certainly like to have taken part in some of your trips up ... the lakes or are you speak about having at Little L. I used to have some lovely times around that ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

9. Memoir from Winfield, Stanley H.

   passing us or other Allied troops, they either looked to the ground, sideways or straight ahead. Some just ... and made me realize that I was in Germany and not just passing through some town that had been struck ... by a hurricane or some other act of nature. In contrast to the bombed, flattened towns we passed ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 9:19pm

10. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

    is to condemn the sin and not the sinner and the second that every man has some weakness also some ... Thermos bottle with coffee every night for the men on duty and believe me a hot drink in middle all our ... to get there just as they are getting in a stock you may get some. Otherwise you are out a luck. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:41am