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  1. Letter from Gill, Leslie Francis

    is? Guess not, after some of the salutations you used. “Handsome,” too, am I? Thats what I always ... some day she be a brilliant musician like her mummie? I sounds as though she may be a singer. Prima ...

    Editor - Aug 1 2023 - 12:41pm

  2. Letter from Gill, Leslie Francis

    That is, how much I love you, or have I mentioned it before? Its an incredible amount, darling some day ... it before? Its an incredible amount, darling some day you’ll believe me. Just heard its 10.30 P.M. ...

    Editor - Aug 29 2023 - 12:29pm

  3. Letter from Lane, Daniel Austin

    and before coming back to my cabin it was necessary to hunt out some of my baggage first. However, ... unable to go ashore at Cape Town, we are naturally anxious to disembark here. I spent some time one day ... some voice culture at giving commands, along the shore, a la Demosthenes while I read or write letters. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Jan 3 2023 - 11:45am

  4. Letter from Baird, Gavin Gibson

    some time but I had been flying every night just the same but eventually came back one night and as ... our squadron there. Some of them were quite sick; others just with a temperature. The Doctors did not ... you had to get in a section where some of the Canadian divisions were stationed. You would not expect ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:19am

  5. Letter from Cox, Bertram Howard

    Mamma, We've put in some very toilsome and yet interesting days, since last writing you; in hot ... not happen to hear. We have, and are, putting up with some awful rough stuff, in fact, I would not go ... Mother Bertram no My dearest Mamma, We've put in some very toilsome and yet interesting days, since ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Nov 16 2021 - 3:13pm

  6. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

    the days of William the Conqueror and some of the buildings standing to date were built about 1500. ... surrounding the church was in old cemetery, some of the stones of which date back to 1767 if not earlier. We ... to be surrounded on three sides by a deep trench, the relic of some battle of bygone days. Leaving ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:17am

  7. Diary from Newton, John

    morning and afternoon. Interviewed Col. Swift regarding his transferring to us some infantry men. Received ... old church built in the 14th Century In the afternoon rode out to Hankley Common to select some ... 11:30. Had been down to Taplow to see Dr. Flemming. It was good to see the old boy and to get some first ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:58am

  8. Diary from Newton, John

    some wire cutting at combat Trench with 106 [?]. In the evening got out an operation schedule for the ... H.Q. to raise any one from whom I could get some money. In the evening rode back to Bgde and had a game ... 16th Btty. Did some shopping and had dinner at the club. Wrote to May. Monday August 27, 1917 Rained ...

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

  9. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

    reason being that it was carefully restored some forty or fifty years ago- which rarely improves a church ... the R.A.M.C. Corporal & asked him for some but they are stricter on supplies then they used to be ... chocolate I still have in reserve, & some of the cakes for that matter. I don't know if I ever told ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:33am

  10. Letter from Platt, Henry Errol Beauchamp

    blighters dig into the ground about twenty feet or more and can outlive quite a battering. They have some ... the worthy batmen by some grandly conceived and admirably executed larceny have managed to get an ... have some made and send it home as a little remembrance later on. I would like to send you something ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm