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1. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

   mother, I have just had dinner after the route march this morning and feeling very tired I have dropped in ... the "Boy Scout" YMCA hut. Yesterday passed very much the same as the day before. In the ... until tea time. In the evening Stuart, Palmer and I went into the town again where I bought some ...

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

2. Letter from Cobourg World

   did not feel at all comfortable. In the trenches it is not very comfortable, but far more so than ... I thought. Going in and out is exciting and very dangerous as the snipers keep the bullets whizzing all ... around all the time. Our bunch, for the first time under fire, although not thirty yards across from the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:59pm

3. Letter from Dureault, Louis

   ever. Thanks a million times over and over again. Thanks. You all think oh so very much of your Son to ... I haven't been able to say for a long time yes, I actually got a letter and also your wire thanks every so ... injury has caused I did cry a lot when I was reading the letter as I knew very well that when that letter ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 7:09am

4. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   a wonderful time- and have had a wonderful time. I went up to Scotland for four days and three days up in ... the theatre one night. We had a wonderful time. He also took me all through his paper factory and ... very very bad. I went through them at 10 o'clock and the atmosphere then was so thick that it made ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:38pm

5. Letter from Reekie, George Abraham

   I get back there I will go to see you if I get time I dont think I will be very buisy for a while any ... France Nov. 1. 1918 Dear Aunties I received your very welcome letter today and I thought I had ... house never gets as bad as some I have seen. You will have every thing fixed up pretty swell by the time ...

   Editor - Feb 2 2022 - 11:22am

6. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   wrote me a very nice letter last week in which he stated that he hoped I would remember my promise and ... not be very much I expect. Mrs. Hart gave me my birthday present last night. It is a lovely writing ... case. I am very pleased with it. She also gave me a book of Mary Hoskins poetry and an illustrated copy ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:43pm

7. Letter from Rowat, Thomas Alexander

   now is very bad for any sort of movement, and no doubt things may be quiet for some time, but of ... enclosed. Am very glad to hear that all in Ottawa are well and enjoying life, and was rather surprised to ... the weather now is mild and rainy and very misty. The trenches, I am told, are very muddy, but I have ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

8. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

   stove and a splendid little fire. The great trouble is to get wood. Wood is very scarce and we have to ... of postcards of the Somme front. I suppose we will not be allowed to send them from here but will be ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:31am

9. Letter from Mercer, Richard William

   writing you very often lately, haven't I? All for this time. Hoping you are both quite well. Your ... [271] Dec 15/18 Dear Father & Mother:- Thanks very much for the parcel received to-day. The cake was ... bank of the Rhine [273]. It is certainly a very pretty place too. We are in barracks now [274]. I think ...

   Editor - Nov 30 2021 - 11:14am

10. Letter from Eardley, Thomas Ernest

    Tuesday July 13/15 Dear Mother Thank you very much for your letter, I resieved a parsel & ... a letter from Emmie today, it was very good of her to send me it, please dont trouble to send me any more ... & inspect us, I think it is Hughes. We are having very fine Weather down here now, I went for a long ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:10pm