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1. Letter from MacKay, Gordon Rae

   Six days at sea Nov 6th/16 Dear Mother. Well I guess it is about time I was getting a letter ... kicking for this time so I'll get down to bus. I wrote to you in Halifax but did not get it mailed. ... I will be mailing it at Liverpool along with this one. We were very fortunate as regards sailing. We got ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:58pm

2. Letter from Ellis, John Walter

   I was very pleased to get your welcome letter, although I was disappointed because you are not coming ... a while as Ill be at school all the time & would not have much time to see you, but I could'nt ... contingent man I believe they did make some allowances at the beginning of the war, but its cut out now. We ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:09pm

3. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   and then they can be forwarded on to you. We're only allowed to send these to Canada. There ... work and give us two more time for the more exalted persuits (?). Thought it would be a good idea to ... one time that they came from Halstead, but I notice that is in Essex, dust across the border from ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:41am

4. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   Somewhere in England April 5th, 1940 Dear Mom: I have been to Brighton and had a wonderful time ... enjoyed watching the game although it seemed very slow and tame in comparison to the game which we play ... because they are not allowed to body check. When the Army teams play (there are six of them and the Pats ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:26pm

5. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   some ways it seems quite that but in most ways the time has passed very quickly. The first few days ... No.4 Squadron R. F. C. France 6/5/17 Dear Father. We have had a very hot week of it. I have no ... idea just how hot it was, but we spent our spare time trying to keep cool. Last night it rained, in ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:34pm

6. Letter from Anderson, John Henry

   send me, as Andy was a very Dear Chum to me all the time I have been in France.  I was on his Gun Crew. ... it certainly was very hard indeed for Harry, unfortunate in fact, as he was the first man to go on ... leave in this “Batt.” had he come through. Although he should have had it a long time ago. Jack Foster ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Dec 13 2022 - 9:17am

7. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

   seven platoon so that we don't get so very much time together. None of them have got promotion; no ... had much time to think about it. I was rather surprised, but very pleased, to think that you had ... letter of the 10th:- shopping must be getting very difficult nowadays, I guess you are often at your wits ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:16pm

8. Letter from Charman, Frances

   a setting up place for a while. I am hoping Gladys is still with you, but I suppose by the time this reaches ... very narrow, and ruts between stones for the chariot wheels. I just can't describe it all. Bought ... destroyed Pompeii the second time. Visited Anzio, and wonder of wonders, Rome. It's beautiful ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:35pm

9. Letter from Cobourg World

   By kind permission of Col. Neil F. MacNachtan, C. V.D., we are allowed to publish the following ... attached to different royal field batteries. We were shelled three or four times but there were no ... however he stayed down the rest of the time I was out there. There was one poor Canadian shot within a few ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 30 2021 - 3:59pm

10. Letter from Brophy, Lewis Lans

    wonder if I was at Cut-Knife Hill. I guess you have heard by this time that I was. I am quite surprised ... remains when Middleton comes back from Pitt, but no one his allowed to go up until Big Bear is settled as ... the country above is hardly safe. I read of Mr Grants Death in a stray paper some time ago. I did not ...

    Editor - May 31 2023 - 12:55pm