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1. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   you file over with your mess tin. Of course, some houses are better than others, cleaner; and maybe ... but those places are very rare. Mostly all the people are phlegmatically indifferent, and don’t seem ... so closely packed, as, the floor being brick and the places fearfully draughty, you have a better ...

   Editor - Mar 7 2022 - 2:53pm

2. Letter from Skeet, Frank

   you've had operations, isn't it? So let's hope you have better luck this time. You ought to be ... know any better. He should have joined the army and got a wee bit of experience first. The little dears ... at Xmas. I'll bet he had a sight better way of spending Xmas than the most of us out here, or it ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 4:47pm

3. Letter from Robertson, John Hill

   better write tonight I would have wrote earlier this week but have been too busy. Last Monday we went to ... There was no danger of a guard standing too long in one place during his 2 hours on the beat. We had to ... home soon. I hope it is true. The sooner the better I'll like it John Army WWI North America ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 5:32pm

4. Letter from Ramsey, Edward Cresswell

   astray so in future you had better address as above, 2 nd Canadian Ex. Force instead of C.E.F. because ... here some days, but we can stand it alright. Tell Eve that Elsie Taylor is going to write her. She ... any answer, I suppose she will be better by now so perhaps I will get an answer soon or they may not ...

   Editor - Nov 22 2021 - 5:21pm

5. Letter from Cobourg World

   there just after morning 'stand to'. The sleepers at dawn are all roused and 'stand ... to' at the parapet until it is clear light. Those who have been on watch part of the night turn in ... on which men stand to fire. Along this lay, sound asleep, many of the poor fellows. It was raining ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:50pm

6. Letter from Robertson, Charles Eric

   airmen. I don’t like the sound of those shells and I don’t like the way they bump your machine around. It ... worth while to try to pick me off. My observer was standing up and ready for him and potted at him over ... bus up until she was standing on her tail and my observer, almost lying on top of me, got a good burst ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

7. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

   Everytime I stand up the ship seems to turn over and I fall down. On Wednesday I felt better. Ate my ... trip. Of course until you get used to standing on deck when it is tipped on an angle of about 30 or 35 ... go down. Everytime I stand up the ship seems to turn over and I fall down. On Wednesday I felt ...

   Editor - Feb 8 2022 - 6:10am

8. Letter from Nelson, Alfred Fern

   with my naturlization papers off to Sacra[?] again. If those "Birds" don't come ... I just couldn't resist tho', they looked so lovely & juicy in the stand. Spent an hour at ... but he only laughed told me to omit those extras I wasn't used to, & enjoy the se[?]. He ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:09am

9. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   those I have made in the past years. In fact- I can't regard them as merely friends, they seem so ... Mary is all those and something more, much more besides. I think Stanley is much younger in many ... I would also like to mention to you just how much those parcels would mean to him, especially as he has in ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:16pm

10. Letter from Brown, Robert Gordon

    very good indeed. I wish you would thank those who sent it for me and also thank Aunt Bertha for the ... coming in better lately and the other fellows with me have been receiving parcels too, most of which, by ... I told him I knew very little, such as mapreading, morse code & Lewis machine gun, but those are all ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 1:54am