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1. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

   seems to have passed. I don’t think that Hitler expected the British navy to take such a firm stand ... a chance to clean up those already there. One thing this latest German move will do, is remove the last ... through a few antics for our benefit. I wouldn’t like to be a “Fritzy” pilot with one of those on my tail. ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

2. Letter from Davey, John Vernon

   send Ordinary OK. and shall save a shilling then. I guess you those two letters must have gone down as ... but I told the clerk he'd better make it up easy as its there fault as since leaving Halifax ... ago. and I'm sorry about those films you talk about, I can't find them as yet but will look ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 1:53am

3. Letter from MacKay, Gordon Rae

   a very nice little place and much quieter than the Y.M. The paper is much better than Y.M. Paper too. ... line and the rations sure are hard to put down. They are some better this last day or two though for we ... good. However I guess we are better off than they are in Germany. At least I hope so. Gee but it is hard ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:02pm

4. Letter from Skeet, Frank

   on the top, which suited some of us a lot better. But we were glad when we got here, as the most ... since then we have been kept busy. We get it harder here than in Eng, but I like it better so far, as ... it? One thing here; we can't go out in the evening without a pass, and we can't get those ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 5:03pm

5. Letter from Davis, William Worth

   them are better off dead than alive. Those that are not, are at least warm and that is more than we ... least. We are getting meals now with which I have no fault to find, and much better than many had at home ... in Peace Times. I had a dinner to-day, better by far than many I have had in boarding houses. My work ...

   Editor - Mar 16 2023 - 2:22pm

6. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

   follows him, haunts him. Even in his dreams he sees again those cruel, gaping wounds, hears those ... Everywhere he turns a pub door stands invitingly open and the sound of music floats softly out to him. The ... from McGill and in civil life probably accustomed to move in better circles then she. When we left ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:40am

7. Letter from Balfour, James Stevenson

   have enjoyed those parcels. I wouldn't mind some cakes or short-bread myself right now. Have eaten ... kind are much easier on the feet. I would like to have a pr. or two of those you & Grandma have ... I forgot to. A bomb blew lit in front of the parapet and the explosion knocked two fellows standing beside ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 1:42am

8. Letter from McNeill, John

   I suppose Vernon is pretty lively just now with all those soldiers, I hope they are behaving themselves, ... only men like other men, no better & no worse, & in a big bunch of men like that, there is ... soldiers there a good time & charge them reasonably in the stores, for perhaps those same poor fellows ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm

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

   the distance in spending those nine whole days together. And now it is over, and I am back in the ... the chance I've had to see again those whom I love, and to be able to tell them with my own lips ... that other and forlorner group of three, standing outside the dock gates with the sentry like the angel ...

   Editor - Jul 31 2022 - 2:54pm

10. Newspaper Article from Briggs, Tillman Alfred

    dress the wounded. As soon as he had attended to those he pushed forward across the open and assisted ... those who had fallen. His services were most valuable, and his work of a very high order. He displayed ...

    Editor - Mar 29 2022 - 9:17am