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1. Letter from Butler, Edgar Dawson

   might get winter soon enough so I guess we can’t stand this for a while yet. I am still up here yet but ... good-bye so many times but after all I am take all those chances. I am sorry you felt so bad Sunday Leona ... mentioning you. Well I suppose I better stop the bragging and think of something else to say, but that is ...

   Editor - Jul 7 2023 - 5:36pm

2. Letter from Row, John, Jr.

   France June 15th 18 Dear Mother, I thought I had better write you and stand a chance of getting it ... dead until Danny McPhail told me. In your letter you mention about eating rye bread. Well we are better ... On Friday we get no jam, butter or cheese. We call it starvation day. I think we are better off since ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:10am

3. Photo from Parker, Charles William

   Charles William Parker standing, Victor Jones seated, nd. Army WWI North America Canada Photo ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 8:55am

4. Letter from Hollett, William Lloyd

   are standing up to it better than me complexion, while Hennie is just the opposite, one thing that’s ... one of those times. My face is so red now that people are asking if its sore; it is! But after about ... I feel much better, the P.T to-day seemed to loosen me up considerably. I think the officers must have ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

5. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

   comfortable to walk around until breakfast time than lay cramped up in the lorry. Those of us who remained ... other chap got up and standing to leave the lorry placed one of his no.9's between his unfortunate ... mutters, which perhaps are better not put down on paper. C'est la guerre- such is war- and such ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:47am

6. Photo from Johnson, Joseph Wesley

   Photo, L.274 A town near our lines without one house left standing, nd, Front  Army WWI Photo ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

7. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

   probability, will spend Xmas in the line. The weather has been better than we dared expect, though the nights ... are raw and cold. I don’t really mind the cold though, because it is far better than the warmer, wet ... makes it possible to dig a decent dug-out and get a stove together. Our present “Stand Easy” is quite ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

8. Letter from Dennison, Gordon Joshua

   Tuesday May 10th 41 Well I didn't get those pictures last night so thought I would hold the ... Riverdale park in Toronto. Well I guess this is all so I had better again Love to all Bill PS I got weighed ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:44am

9. Letter from Humewood School

   my thanks to Mr. Trusler and those who very generously sent me the box for Xmas. It was a very ... and I might add that it couldn’t fit me better, or keep me warmer. I’m sure that everything in the box ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:06pm

10. Letter from Sinclair, Lawrence Charles

    his small parcel. Who took those pictures of you and the girls? I think the weather must have been ... gloomy that day alright. The ones of the garden were good and so were those of out north. How did Tom ... October the winter weather begins to set in here, and the rainy weather starts. How I’ll stand it I’m just ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm