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1. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   Feb 22nd 1914 Dear Mother, This is another of those fine days. Bright and clear and cold. While it ... a cough. I hope he will be able to stand it as well as Ruth. Poor Aunt Jean hasn't been at all well. ... yet, although it is a lot better. She was downstairs to her supper last night for the first time since ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:24pm

2. Letter from Butler, Karl Vincent

   a real good bunch are our signals. I am writing to wannie to-night also. Oh I almost forgot those Sydney ... standing behind me watching me miss the target. He asked me what was the matter and I told him the rifle ... P.S. You had better use the first address I gave you in the first letter. Tell Tick and Lonna to write. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:06pm

3. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   have those about you realize "Theres a man who is better than his rank" than have them think ... sensitive to it- also a man's a man- and in the long run that is what counts- Those qualities of ... stripe a pip- and make you stand out among the others- you eventually learn to regard the marks on ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:47am

4. Letter from McArthur, John Alexander

   I owe you a few lines. As usual I was glad to hear from you and of course felt a whole lot better after ... all are going away to take musketry next week and those who make good will likely go. The work is ... certain we will all soon be there; long before xmas. We all want to go and could not go in a better bunch ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:47pm

5. Letter from Van Allen, Austin Newton

   Traer's toe—does it still hurt or did they have to amputate it or is it all better now or what. Tell me—do ... you like Vancouver much better in the spring then in the fall & winter.—I'll bet you do. And ... present a wrist watch to the graduate in our class with the highest standing. I don't figure I am in ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:36pm

6. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   and enormous cathedral standing, intact, scarred, it is true, but standing in triumph among a chaos of ... and streets of homes, standing, but blasted out, windows gone, doors blown in, furniture and fittings ... hardly anything to eat. One dish I selected was smoked eel, it was stringy and tough, and no better in ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:49am

7. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   much better than I was. We’ve had a “strenuous” trip, very strenuous. Some of the old timers say it has ... fell almost on top of them. I think I’ve mentioned Mike to you. I doubt if we could have had a better ... really interesting part. We’d been asleep awhile, then were waked up to “stand to.” Fritz had come over ...

   Editor - Mar 8 2022 - 3:02pm

8. Letter from Moyer, Jay Batiste

   glad to get out of those trenches. I was very eager to see the front but remember that little piece of ... night its just like a night in the grand stand at the Ex for fireworks and colored lights and plenty of ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:12am

9. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   It’s funny. You’d laugh to hear me, “Take those two mit now — and this one aprѐs midi — and again ce ... soir.” The horses are standing this weather very badly. At least ten are shot every morning and thrown ...

   Editor - Mar 8 2022 - 1:20pm

10. Letter from Gray, Robert Hampton

    by now) I hope he is a bit better than some of those boys Al used to go out with. And Lois, too. ... me on this ship. You will find Cowan, Ogilvy, Brewer and Atkinson on those last pictures I sent you. ... the people. They don’t seem to know there is a war on at all (except those, of course, with members of ...

    Editor - Jul 13 2022 - 3:31pm