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  1. Letter from Lightbody, Alexander

    nickname, and call you Buck? It was very sweet of you to send my mother and I those delicious chocolates, ... chocolate-less for a few weeks. I console myself with the fact that this meagre ration will prevent those extra ... I think he must have been to one of those R.C.A.F. parties as it only takes about five minutes really. ...

    Editor - Aug 31 2023 - 2:22pm

  2. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    busy, but after all a fellow can surely take enough time to write his better half at least once a week. ... medal till we got to Martinez Restaurant for lunch. After getting past the Presence, you can stand at ... the back and watch those following you getting theirs, which was both interesting, and the more ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 1:26am

  3. Letter from Hale, Robert

    to Napoleon which stands near our camp. On the ground where it stands Napoleon is suppose to have ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:38pm

  4. Letter from Irving, Gordon Budd

    Scampton Lincoln. What are you doing these days? Are you doing anything with the car? It can't stand ... there much longer without some attention to the batteries and should not stand too long on the tires. If ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 2:24am

  5. Letter from Liddiard, Walter

    be making better time now. Glad to hear that you are getting my letters alright, they seem to be ... Also got the 2 M.O's for [?] 1 each. You needn't be afraid of my financial standing I feel ... tired of the drill sometimes it gets monotonous. It's better than being shut up in a stuffy office ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 4:55am

  6. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

    a prosperous little town but now, hardly a stone left standing, & here & there among the mounds of ... debris, there stands with outstretched arms little cross telling their eloquent- pitiful heroic story, the ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:47am

  7. Letter from Lakefield College School Collection

    and the massed bodies of the troops swung by the reviewing stand with a Canadian swing that evidently ... King got into the stand and the march past started. First the Royal Canadian Dragoons, Strathcona Horse ... sharp muzzled one on the left. We were told last night that our standing is now the same as the British ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:10pm

  8. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

    at the bottom says you will be visited from time to time if you need any other comforts than those ... are not fit for any more of it- your nerves any way will not stand much more,- Don't let them ... England. I could stand that tho' the disappointment is keen. Every one tells me you will not be sent ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:36am

  9. Letter from Cousins, Frank C.

    so feel more like a human. I wish I could find a good remedy to rid me of those friendly customers ... the trenches at night you can see every type of rat- like those described in the Piper of Hamelin ... a shave and wash so feel more like a human. I wish I could find a good remedy to rid me of those friendly ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:32am

  10. Letter from Ellis, Hadden William

    condeming it & also those who use it. I wonder if he ever were in France, as a buck, if not I don't ... could see what I did they would not speak so irrespective of the boys. Those are the sort of people they ... very clever and sees all those faults but I would like to have had him with me today. Yes I have ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 10:50am