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1. Letter from Cauthers, William Austin

   Calgary Alberta 22-8-42 Dear Margaret.- Well I guess it is about time I was writing you another ... duty watch either. I haven't got very much to tell you as it is the same old shit around here ... around as much as he did? Are the prices of things down there very high? Up here they are a bitch. It is ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 6:45am

2. Letter from Lane, Daniel Austin

   camp for a month, which was very disagreeable, as we were drilled steady all the time and couldn't ... girlie, to see if I could locate you, though it will undoubtedly be a long time before I get the answer. ... go outside the camp. On July 27 we got 6 days leave and I spent a wonderful time scooting around ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:06pm

3. Letter from Bridges, Jeannette "Nettie" Drysdale

   get back to the hospital and see how the men are taking it. A lot of them will get well very quickly ... a trained nurse. She was out in South Africa the time of the Boer war & stayed on there some years ... open for a long time yet but I don’t intend to stay after I finish my 6 months contract. I did intend ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

4. Letter from Gullen, William Roy

   France Feb 12/17 Dearest family Did not sleep very good last night had a French man cut my hair ... a while at Hospital this big peb will have four dressings a day wish it would keep me for some time had ... very fine cooking thoes little cakes were extra fine I don’t think any person could beat them I know ...

   Editor - Sep 2 2024 - 12:26pm

5. Letter from Platt, Henry Errol Beauchamp

   from all time, and yet there is none of the feverish desire to cultivate every inch of ground that ... artificially assisted by man, and yet never to have been outraged. The soil of the south-west is very red, and ... cheering like mad. The town itself is very old fashioned and wonderfully clead looking. The streets rise up ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

6. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   Oct. 26th, 1943 Chatham, NB. Dear Mom and Dad, Your letter arrived on a very inauspicious day for ... me. I had just finished my Instrument exam and I am very much afraid of it. If I passed- it was only ... by a very small margin, I am afraid I made 3 very silly mistakes and lost nearly half the total marks ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:15pm

7. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

   from camp and a very dead little place at that. We were given a five-day leave and two pounds with ... which to do it, so I was very glad that I had relatives to see. I spent slightly over a pound on railway ... fare, which took me to Budleigh and left me very short of funds; however, Auntie May was very glad to ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

8. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

   glad of the [?] when they arrive altho' I don't get very much time for reading mainly because ... many fresh scenes and done so many things out of the ordinary that the time has gone rather quickly. ... it must seem that I have been away a long time to you because you are always thinking about me, being ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:14pm

9. Letter from Smith, Henry Crozier

   Oct. 18, 1916 My own Darling, I am afraid it is a long time since I wrote, but we have been having ... our turn in the firing line and have not had much time. Most of the battalion went up on the 11th but ... dugouts for ourselves and camped there and spent our time day and night carrying munitions and water up ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:05am

10. Letter from Irwin, Harold Lawrence

    the other officers, so you see I dont have much time to my-self, Today has been very nice and I am ... May 25th 15 My Dearest Mother I rec your letters yesterday and was Very Pleaced to know every ... it is very nice out here, & every body is nice & have got a good job. But never get one ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm