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1. Diary from Whyte, James Claude

   huts as we are sleeping in hutts. In the afternoon I went to Folkstone & had a very good time. We ... we all had a good time. Thursday, May 31st, 1917 The weather is very cool, it was a very cool night, ... Tuesday, May 1st, 1917 We got up on time at 5.30 A.M. There is seven hrs difference in the time ...

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

2. Letter from Teer, Arthur George

   I believe & should consequently see some hard fighting. It is very difficult to find time to write just ... last January this is my first opportunity of dropping you a line. We had a very pleasant trip across ... imagined since here we have been doing some very fair shooting & I suppose Fritz will very soon be ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:06am

3. Letter from Turner, Arthur Lawrence

   We had to walk along trenches up to our knees in mud in places and also go over some very rough ... Line. We had to walk about 6 miles from our old billets down a trench which was very wet and muddy in ... that we were on these shifts and so had 8hrs work and plenty of time to sleep also plenty to eat and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Oct 12 2022 - 2:01pm

4. Letter from Sudbury, John P.

   In a dugout. Sat. Nov 4th 1916 My dearest Mother Thanks very much for your interesting letter ... to get my parcel off when you are not feeling well for I would sooner wait. Very glad Percy got the ... weekend and that you had such a good time. I guess the piano wondered what was happening to have so much ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:09pm

5. Letter from Eardley, Thomas Ernest

   We are having quite a good time out here so far. I haven't seen anything more exciting yet than ... the Germans shelling an English airoplane. weve see that several times. We are camped in a large ... Trenches but there was nothing exciting happening, although there ahs been a very heavy bombardment to the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:24pm

6. Letter from McCheyne, Alexander

   make two of our cousins3 in a very short time, but I suppose such is the fortune of war well I think ... but it has been fair most of the time. I will not get the parcel for a few more days yet as they ... the time in now, so I will have to wait a day or so but I suppose it will be all right for a time ...

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

7. Letter from Haddow, George Caldwell

   go seek affairs. You are not allowed to have anything in your tent in the day time and there are ... good a time at the hospital because now I am back at camp it seems absolutely impossible for me to ... a job like Earle has in the record office at London. It makes me so sore at times to feel that I am good ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

8. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

   has been a great help to you these hard times. I am sorry to hear you are having trouble launching the ... home can’t get any more than an existence on what money the soldiers send home and the govt allowance ... . Of course in England the soldiers wage is very small and the food is as high or even dearer than it ...

   Editor - Feb 8 2022 - 7:01am

9. Letter from Copeland, Arthur Harold Madill

   Two months is very good time for Canadian mail these days. It was mighty good of you to send a parcel. ... particular little corner is on the top floor up three flights of stairs. As I go up and down umpteen times ... field”] (a little swank) inside the wire where in normal times we play indoor base-ball, foot-ball etc. ...

   Editor - Apr 9 2022 - 5:59am

10. Letter from Beames, Henry Denys

    #10 Repair Depot June 19, 1941 My darling Jill, Here is your very penitent husband sweetheart ... at that. I’m getting to be like a kid that finds a dollar, – every time I get a letter from you ... I hibernate and peruse it – all the time imagining you writing it all and doing the things you write about. ...

    Editor - Feb 24 2023 - 2:17pm