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1. Diary from Whyte, James Claude

   Monday, July 2nd, 1917 Well this was a day of celebration Domion Day. We did nothing in the morning only ... & nearly broke down in the march Oh some band. We got back in time for supper & I was busy ... Miss & Mrs Crawford. I am. some lucky boy. five parcels already. But we all enjoy them very much. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:34pm

2. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

   celebrate your 21st birthday. My its too good to think of & I cannot allow myself to count too much on ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 11:00am

3. Letter from Turner, Arthur Lawrence

   celebrated for its fine chestnut trees. The hospital grounds are quite extensive and as the old Park House is ... one of the hospital buildings, they naturally include some of the prettiest parts of the Park. There ... pale green which shows up well against the black woodwork. The Recreation Room was green given by some ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Oct 12 2022 - 2:09pm

4. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

   I'll even have at it to-day. as I usually celebrate the event It is a beautiful day- tho: clouding up ... next move. I have a bible Full to the top, so I guess. I may give some to the Red Cross now, instead of ... ti- do. It was so Funny. The teacher has some raw material there to develop. The other day they came ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:59am

5. Newspaper Article from Advance Post

   eastward. He may make some attempt now to defend the line of the River Ouse from Godmanchester southward ... goat trails taken by some of the hurrying convoys, encountered country that has not been seen by ... closed overhead.      Several times some of us thought we saw flashes of flitting figures in green ...

   Editor - Dec 29 2023 - 9:10am

6. Diary from Newton, John

   Hotel. After breakfast Jake called up some friends of is at Clydebank who came into town & had tea ... promised to go out tomorrow as we wished to see the New Years celebrations. Army WWI Europe Great Britain ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 7:13am

7. Letter from Bolster, Herbert D'Alton

   on the celebrated Mulligan and hard tack, after which we were conducted to some French army huts for ... I was said by some to possess a "temperament" (whatever that may be). I claimed a 1ittle ... any of us. In support trenches we carried bombs to the Front line and put some wire up and did all ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:23am

8. Letter from Neville, Shorey Johnson

   there are plenty of men waiting back somewhere and the real reason is that there is some reorganizing ... I find we are not in Normandy after all nor in Picardy as some think, but sandwiched in between the two ... saw a German plane nose-diving from some tremendous altitude at which he had approached unobserved. He ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:08pm

9. Letter from Beames, Henry Denys

   to be doing some real work again, but we’ll be in it soon enough I guess and there is very little we ... certainly up to scratch anyway and gave me a real home from home. Accepting Mrs. Rowe’s hospitality I made ... Regent St., to get some more cig’s which Bud had sent. That evening I picked up two strays at the B. club ...

   Editor - Feb 25 2023 - 6:16am

10. Letter from Rooke, (Robert, Charles, and George)

    some time to reach us here; indeed it is wonderful we receive it at all, the way it has been forwarded ... came through some of the loveliest sights in Africa, as our route lay through the sugar plantations and ... saddle blankets. However, some of us struck off as soon as we got our rations issued and found an empty ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:42am