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1. Letter from Thompson, John Alexander Selter

   officers playing & the man in charge said, Well I can’t very well put those officers off, & so they ... privates are treated no better than dogs in comparison to the officers. I don’t know how it is in the ...

   Editor - Dec 6 2023 - 10:55am

2. Letter from Matier, Alexander

   making a fool out of myself, but bringing trouble to my people and it would be better for everybody ... without uncovering a body, we were standing in water up to our hips, in which were dead bodies, on which ... which was the distance bet our front lines & the Huns when I see standing about 10 ft away four ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:34pm

3. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

   and this one is later. I am having quite a time with Billy still. He got all better of his swollen ... cut the smallest block of my new cake, to get him a bit. I think he will be better by morning. After ... I don't mind making those big ones now at all. They have always turned out all right- take 4 hours in the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:49am

4. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

   seemed better so to me. The girls said they were sure you would have a chain to wear it one, I could not ... allowed off each week end & if they give it me, it would have to be at the expense of one of those ... week. In many ways there sooner it begins the better, except in as far as each week ought to see many ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 5:01am

5. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   things. Believe it or not I have the utmost confidence in your taste and financial decisions in those ... to see her- When you see Jack Cummings again give him my best and I hope his wife is better. Poor ... feel better- give her my love. You will find it lonely when you get established in our own home- and it ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 1:36am

6. Letter from Trotter, Bernard Freeman

   I don't like those of Marjorie quite as well as my profile- as portraits I mean. Father's is ... installments. The socks from the church are quite all right. Those from the class were too small so I am sending ... before; but if you know of any of our friends being wounded you had better enquire where they are. There ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:18pm

7. Letter from Thorburn, Howard Beverley

   you're soaking those exemption people to the limit. (Have just been smoked out by the stove. it happens ... I got through the best part of 60 quid in those 10 days! Not so bad for a hick from the colonies was it? ... rations are getting better. I was down at the W.L. the other day and had a swell bath and a good sleep. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 5:59pm

8. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   big hospitals where the wounded are cared for. I don’t know how many there are of those; but one of ... “single-idea men”, those who only talk of that which they themselves have done and seen, therefore narrow. It’s ... going over, I want to be in it. But — also I want to be with you and Bill [1] again. You’d better hurry ...

   Editor - Mar 2 2022 - 4:00pm

9. Artwork from Target for Tonight

   approach it down river. We’ll see the canal better.”             Dickson puts “F for Freddie’s” nose down ... right on the target. I can see the siding.”             Dickson (calmly): “I’m going in a glide. Stand ...             Dickson: “You’d better send the target bombed signal, operator.”             Look down. New bursts ...

   Editor - Jun 30 2022 - 11:06am

10. Letter from Charman, Frances

    week. Better write me a good regular one soon. Send it airmail, and I'll receive it quicker. You ... from me are regular V-mail, so are photographed. They have a preference. They prefer us to send those ... looked better on most people. I sent to Mildred a long time ago for a few things, but I haven't ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:33pm