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1. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   can scratch that off my assets. Did you ever get those War Bonds I have been buying recently? They ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:26pm

2. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

   in the un-mailed letter I mentioned, because I got back without having so much as scratched the paint ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

3. Letter from Scherer, George Leslie

   there we were given leaky old tents some of which had three inches of water in them. The worst of it was ... week, but are going in the ranks with the draft on Tuesday. Of course there has been some excitement ... & intend to celebrate my 1st day in the trenches by wearing them on that occasion. We haven't ...

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

4. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   green, and with few exceptions quite plentiful. We have had some rain past week, so everything points to ... some odd wires. It was just finished yesterday, so that now I have practically a new machine. And it ... happy as they certainly had the odds 6 to I and also the speed. I never got a scratch at all, by the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:34pm

5. Letter from Charman, Frances

   AUGUST 2, 1945; BOLOGNA Dear Bernice: Am sitting down here in a nice mess, and scratching off this ... to the 70th General and was to have left this morning for the same, however there was some hitch in ... the girls went up the mountain a ways, and slid on some snow and brought back snowballs. A great ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:37pm

6. Letter from Johnson, Thomas William

   we could be together for just one hour it would be even better. But some day that will come too. Let ... I "raised the wind". Well, I went to the Paymaster & tried to get some money, but he refused me ... Wouldn't it be great if they both came back to you without a scratch. Thousands will, I am sure, so let us ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:43pm

7. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   much better than I was. We’ve had a “strenuous” trip, very strenuous. Some of the old timers say it has ... had the worst of the Somme beat. All admit it was as bad. Some one is looking after me alright. Never ... a scratch. I cannot believe it, and there is no doubt whatever that at least on one occasion I was in the ...

   Editor - Mar 8 2022 - 3:02pm

8. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   8 July, ’17. My Dearest Lal: — I have just been lying here soliloquizing on the curious ways some ... spends many shells trying to break it up. And there is a culvert which received some “pretty shelling” ... Not until some one can write and tell people what it means; to sit or crouch — or squirm — around in ...

   Editor - Mar 8 2022 - 3:58pm

9. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

   advisable not as I was mentioning some of the units here. You probably wont find it on the map- as it is ... Hut- a very good orchestra & some good humourous turns- but they needed a good tenor or baritone. ... quite a budget when I get back to console me for the loss of the good times here. Had some thought of ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:28am

10. Letter from Cox, Bertram Howard

    lying on the ground, rolling and tossing and scratching one's skin off. I'm asleep just as ... Some companies have fought to the last man, but we have taken all our objectives. The Allies are ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Nov 16 2021 - 3:00pm