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  1. Letter from Brown, Robert Gordon

    thing to have. I am very glad indeed that I have it. My feet are wet nearly all the time but that can ... now, I have not been able to see a paper for some time and know very little of how things are going. We ... Grace who is worrying about her absent "boys" and has already worked off a very good rest she ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 1:58am

  2. Letter from Sudbury, John P.

    containing the fruit and as our dinner turned out to be a very punk one (I mean by that an exceedingly rotten ... one) we were therefore very glad of the melon and enjoyed it A.1. It is very very hot over here now and ... I shall be very glad to close this and get out of this hut and get under a hedge somewhere to cool off. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:07pm

  3. Letter from Martyn, William Wallace Haig

    figure out what that time would be in Calgary. Ronnie writes very good letters- have him write me another ... HMS Indomitable April 12, 1943 Dear Mother: As usual there is very little to say- Life is ... interesting and I am very fit. What I should like to do is to retire to west Californian beaches and bask in ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:29am

  4. Letter from Bird, George Morton

    so I must try to-day. I had a very fine time at Ocle, though we didn't go rabbit shooting. We ... make it, but I very much hope so. I like Joan and Edward too. They certainly give Fred a lively time of ... Shorncliffe Camp May 7th 1916 Dear Father I am very sorry that I didn't write to you sooner, ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:25am

  5. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

    blue-green water sparkling in the late afternoon sun. The whole countryside is very beautiful, in fact, as ... found it very disappointing, as it now resembles Aldershot, being completely overrun with troops, ... attached to the 2d Division. As far as we know, we will be here for some time and the prospects of our ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

  6. Letter from Trotter, Bernard Freeman

    I shall have a very tolerable time. The officers I have seen so far are quite agreeable chaps. In billets ... sometimes very insignificant things. At such times he swears a bit at the servants, and expresses his ... etc. I daresay I shall have a very tolerable time. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:18pm

  7. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

    past. It has not been a very notable week as far as I am concerned although such things as the handing ... epidemic was very bad but I have been one of the lucky ones. In your letter you said you hoped it would not ... been so bad there was a scarcity of coffins and undertakers did not get time to bury. The soldiers have ...

    Editor - Feb 1 2022 - 3:12pm

  8. Letter from Fargey, James Henderson

    a very nice and gave us a splendid time. We used to be in bed every morning til 9-o-'clock and have ... very long in London only a couple of hours and didn't have very much time to look around, but we ... a fine time. London is not very hard to get around The underground to [?] help you to get around and they ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:11am

  9. Letter from Creswell, George Elliot

    have been having a very good time while in S'ktoon. I received Mothers airgraph and her ordinary ... Letter. I was certainly pleased to get it as it was the first I had received for a month. Very pleased to ... hear that you have been singing over the radio which, I suppose, you enjoyed very much. I imagine you ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:47pm

  10. Letter from Killough, Alfred John Arthur

    time by wishing you a very Happy New Year. "At Thy feet oh Lord we Lay, Thine own gift of this new ... Dec. 27th 1914 My very dearest Arthur As Annie has left a good deal of empty space in her letter ... I am going to write a little and utilize it. I hope my dear boy that you had a very pleasant Christmas ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm