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  1. Letter from Brown, Jack Malcolm

    The most of us are in at present some writing letters, some sewing, others reading and in the opposite ... a very interesting game. We have a small stove in the centre of the room, in which some are stoking it ... shoulder. But Ish ca bibble this will finish some day. Write often and I will try to answer promptly. Your ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Feb 25 2022 - 6:21am

  2. Letter from Ellis, John Walter

    & say Have a taste of my wifey's goodies boys & they certainly enjoy it. I have saved some ... you posted on Wednesday some brute has got it & read it again likely & I suppose he'll be ... of this some day, eh? Oh! my darling I am longing for a thousand kisses & those darling arms ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:09pm

  3. Letter from Sudbury, John P.

    packs and our puttees (to ease our legs) and made tracks for the near bye village, intending to get some ... a French shop (or some of them) then retraced our steps to the Hut, obtained some hot coffee and enjoyed ... we were making for this village we passed a crowd of the ….[censored] and we shouted some ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:09pm

  4. Letter from McArthur, John Alexander

    us- Bill Gough Lee Alex Newton Maguire and Eddie Morton and we are having some time in fact the time ... some sights since we landed in this place. It is a grand town wide streets and loads of parks. We were ... up some stone coffins and we saw them- the coffins- and in them were all the bones of the dead people ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:47pm

  5. Letter from Moore, Joseph Lorne

    make a bracket to fit the compound so he could attach a small portable grinder for a job on some case ... Mrs. Pyke in Galt. I wrote her and sent a piece of Indian shellwork some time ago, but she has been ... sick and could not answer me. However, she is recovering now and says she is knitting me some socks. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:06am

  6. Letter from Brown, Robert Gordon

    Shorncliffe and a couple of days later, we were told that No. 6 would be moving Sunday forenoon. Some of the ... noon (some 40 miles) and got a lot of the stuff unpacked in the afternoon and evening. This forenoon ... ten days they expect to move the whole outfit into Shorncliffe and put us in some of the barracks ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:03am

  7. Letter from Davey, John (Jack)

    lessons a day when we are in the trenches at stand to morning & evening & believe me its some ... had in this platoon. He was buried the same night & some of the boys went to see him buried I was ... the trench what some of the boys found while out on patrol & ammunition. The rifles are in fairly ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:40am

  8. Letter from Thornton, Gordon Stanley

    we'll have to try to outlive it and mayhap we can but without some strenuous stroke of fortune, an ... a rather hard trip in for me if I do not get some other officers back for it- Mike Mitchell was able to get ... And Aitkens & Hall are on Courses for a month & Waite & Derbyshire are training some new ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:46am

  9. Letter from Sanderson, Perry Hooper

    some of them. It was alright to gaze on their homely faces again, especially in the ball uniforms. ... issued to the 2nd C.E.F. and is also the best. It is some outfit, about two dozen pieces and you can ... in France. They get some fantastic ideas alright. We are also getting gas helmets which, as Styles ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:09am

  10. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    cause, If not, then at least I will have had some good experience out of it, which will be useful in the ... the ship carrying my letter got into some trouble. However, there may be some arrive this coming week. ... party to some English officers who are leaving our corps to be replaced by Canadians, who acted as ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 11:52pm