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1. Letter from Liddiard, Walter

   saying we arrived OK. I guess you have it now. We are not allowed to tell anything about the boat trip ... a holiday today. Friday we went to Godalming a little town about 2 ½ miles from here, We had a god time of ... a queer little old-fashioned place of about 2000 inhabitants, it has very narrow streets and old style ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 4:49am

2. Letter from Watson, James Francis

   another 1000 in two weeks time. I thought it was very good of Art Moore to send you the five dollars. ... very light. We were thankful for that. But I heard a description tonight of the trip to the french ... I went to our church & there was a fine attendance & Mr Flook was very good We are to have Mr E.C ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

3. Letter from Reekie, David Leslie

   I rec’d your very welcome and newsy letter today, it was one of four of the first Canadian mail I have had ... trenches where we use live bombs and rifle grenades. Say, I only wish we were allowed to take pictures ... privilege to talk after evading it so long themselves. It is very unlikely that they will ever see active ...

   Editor - Jan 12 2022 - 10:45am

4. Letter from Nelson, Alfred Fern

   & New Years, as I'm wondering along those lines about you myself. Christmas was a very dull ... big dinner they were going to throw. At the time I was told about it my thoughts & the way ... waiter to server, which gave me considerable more time off as the waiters had to clear the tables out of ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:57am

5. Letter from Magee, Frank Honeywell

   this war was coming to an end very quietly. This is all for this time. I will write again as soon as ... possible, and will be looking for a letter from you all the time. Letters are very welcome here I can tell ... though. It gets rather lonesome here sometimes, and there are a great many soldiers around all the time ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

6. Letter from Maloney, Maurice Melville

   April. We all were very sorry but he told us that they never in one town for a long time they stay at one ... place for three weeks. I hope he has enjoyed himself very well. The most of the time he was writing near ... time to reach Holland. The Dutch proverb runs "Better ever than never." All is going well ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:32am

7. Letter from McCheyne, Alexander

   Sunday, which I must thank you very much, we enjoyed it fine, there was four of us for it. I got a stripe ... up now, I was telling you that I had refused it once, well when we were out this last time, they made ... a few more L Cpl and I was one of them, so I thought I would take it this time, we are up the line just ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:58am

8. Letter from Duke, Lancelot de Sausmarez

   quite the best you’ve had taken for a long time & I’m very glad to have it- I didnt mean to inflict ... there: he’s very much like Handley and quite a pleasant chap: he came over quite recently from Egypt and ... is to be married very shortly to quite a nice looking girl: they all, of course, wanted to be ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:08pm

9. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   9 and Little Mary age 9 months. I like all the ladies of Bob's family- the baby is very sweet. Also ... today- it lasted from 11am to 4:30 p.m., He is with Seagrams- the distillers, a very interesting fellow, ... done them very good- or any bad for that matter, they are carrying on in much the same manner as when ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:23am

10. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

    is very little air activity over this country now, though we see the planes pass over nearly every ... spelling and my memory and it is a very soft job. You see, in this job I don’t do any guards or fatigues ... which is almost enough to keep me here until such a time as we go into action. The weather has been ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm