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  1. Letter from McQueen, Alexander Robertson

    very much for sending the money.  I am writing to the girls and will try to write again in decent time ... after that of the 26th.  As you know very well I like getting letters better than answering them but ... would be home in time to teach them the fallacy of anything they learned there. He sent “Roberts” ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

  2. Letter from Ramsey, Edward Cresswell

    you yesterday. It is such a long time since the last one. You said in your letter that there were ... a couple of lines washed out of my letter. I cannot remember what I could have said, I am generally so very ... take your letters a long time to come, the one I got yesterday was dated July 27 th and here I get it ...

    Editor - Nov 23 2021 - 6:19am

  3. Letter from Boggs, Herbert Beaumont

    temp, where he seems to be having the time of his life and a very easy job. Jack Gray is in Hospital with ... February 7 th 1915 Sunday. Dear Mother. A very nice 12 page letter from you this morning. End one ... from Arb. He seems to be very busy and quite happy in his new work. My Captains Certificate also came ...

    Editor - Dec 13 2021 - 3:31pm

  4. Letter from Reekie, George Abraham

    in a very few days. by the time this gets over there we will be in England or better still on the ... Belgium Jan 27/19 Dear Aunties. It aint very long since I wrote to you folks but I got that box ... comes from that M.D., so I will be going right through but will try and get back that way very soon. ...

    Editor - Feb 2 2022 - 11:26am

  5. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    finished in time for me to be home to make Mary's news bed, but thank goodness her growth and ... allowance they issued 2 ½ years ago to buy camp kit, binoculars & compass with. Well of course one ... than lost by the extra fuss of accounting, and time lost by everybody getting mad and talking about it, ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 12:31am

  6. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

    £ a week now so I suppose you will get the same soon. Before I go abroad I will try and have your allowance ... cents a day as you cant spend it on this job. However we will see when the time comes. Friday night ... boy that it is cold there Well I guess there is no more news so I will close for this time with lots ...

    Editor - Jan 31 2022 - 10:04am

  7. Letter from Sudbury, John P.

    In a bivouac on a wide plain. Tues. Sept 19th 1916 My dearest Mother At last I have the time and ... I have just come out of Hell! Where I have been for a short time compared with the trench trips before. ... We indeed had a rough time this trip and I'm more than thankful to be out safe and sound again. ...

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

  8. Letter from Brown, Robert Gordon

    the battery I enlisted in and had quite a fine time. How lovely the country around here looks when one ... gets a little ways back! Green grass and green trees around and birds singing in the air. It was very ... different and for that very reason perhaps, more beautiful and interesting that it would otherwise be. And, ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 1:51am

  9. Letter from McNeill, John

    for ten days leave in a very short time & he expressed the wish that I should get my leave at the ... the good things very much, I have not had time yet to read the books, but in a day or two I expect to ... well, Xmas is over at last, we did not have much of a time here, in fact it was impossible to enjoy ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm

  10. Diary from Maharg, Ivan Clark

    huts. Heavy rain. On Machine gun from 8.30 to 12.45. Very interesting & seemed no time at all. No ... Hogie, Chown & I over to Mess for lunch 9.30. Very foggy about this time. Ryder tells me Paul McLeod ... large room, very cold. [this entry has been crossed out and substituted with the following entry] Monday ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:48am