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  1. Diary from Wilson, Andrew

    Beautiful day again. Slept all forenoon after Stand to and breakfast. Went for a walk in PM, found ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:23pm

  2. Letter from Dickson, William Haslam

    always my luck not to be around when Gallagher was taken those pictures for the Dul people but if I ever ... so proficient in standing like a statue it is nothing for me to stand for 11 or 8 minutes without ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:41am

  3. Letter from Bell, James Bond

    and stand along one side of the field that isn't fenced to keep back the crowd when a bunch of ... and left just a pile of ashes and twisted metal. Those Lockheed Interceptors can sure get around the ... old crate was really bouncing all over the sky. You stand up and go to walk up to ask the other guy ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:04pm

  4. Letter from Beattie, Reverend William

    fields, in which men stand watching for the enemy over a pile of sand bags. As a matter of fact in going ... those bullets as they whizz by or strike near by is something one can not describe it must be ... came down the line, "Stand to, the Germans are attacking", and every man hurried out of his ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:13am

  5. Letter from Carry On: Letters in War-Time

    by those to whom they are addressed, had they not come to feel that the spirit and temper of the ... writer might do something to strengthen and invigorate those who, like himself, are called on to make ... immediate success. When he speaks in these letters of his brief burst of fame, he refers to those crowded ...

    Editor - Jul 30 2022 - 3:40pm

  6. Letter from Hainsworth, Robert

    suffering of the worst and then death like many of those I saw”. “Would he give up everything for the sake ... of those at home who were helpless and in the cause of justness and rightness”. I have seen men ... deal better. Shap must be a nice place for a holiday. I hope your Father felt the benefit of a change. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - May 2 2023 - 10:50am

  7. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    mail. Two lovely parcels from my faithful and indulgent wife. The lighter is better than I could have ... wonderful that would be. Funny, I don't remember the mole on her ear. Anyway, we'd better do ... whatever the Doctor recommends. I think you should have a check over by the doctor too, much better to be ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:11am

  8. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

    are better than nothing at all. The weather is rather miserable just now. Snow on the ground, at least ... so much about it. Next Xmas after this I shall be home though, I hope. It will be much better than ... Oxford and of course to Folkestone which is of the standing order. If Alf is in England he will spend the ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:32pm

  9. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

    more I see of other squadrons, the better I like our own. In is a great cure for that fed up or ... dissatisfied [sic] feeling and I enjoy this place much better as a result. Yesterday afternoon Major Young (Dr ... now stands but I think it would be a change to London, don't you? Hope to hear from you in day or ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:35pm

  10. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

    throat sprayed so that I was much better- I took service in the evening & had a good time, Oh on ... it was a great sight, though very hard work standing so long etc- The Medical Corps were kept busy ... Bell's company's we had insured with- you had better find out & don't pay any premium until ...

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