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  1. Letter from Adams, George Walter

    October 29, 1918 My dear George I hope by this time your letter is on the way telling us whether ... for Harry's funeral. Got there just in time. On Sat. she invited Edie down to Florrie's as ... she hadn't time to come up here. Florrie told Edie that Percy Skippon was home & she was ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:07am

  2. Diary from Kempling, George Hedley

    hadn't now. We have to walk much farther and the work is harder. This time we walk north to the opposite ... side of the hose-shoe in our line. This time we passed through another ruined village much like the ... are torn up, or blown up, and the very landscape is scarred and made hideous with broken trees and ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:42pm

  3. Letter from Gould, Albert Norman

    a marvelous time. I was going to London but 2 days is not sufficient time for a journey like that. We will be ... going to a squadron in 5 days time & all going well we will get 7 days leave from there. Wally Loth ... shots of the town were there including the Lord Mayor & the Sheriff It was very ceremonial. They ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:23am

  4. Letter from McNeill, John

    but I have been very sick, the first operation was not very successful so they had to operate on me ... a second time, I think they have fixed me up all right this time, I have been up now for a week & they ... very long about it, they said there was nothing wrong with my eyes only for a little weakness probably ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm

  5. Letter from Flett, Walter Earnest Peter

    Crystal Palace Saturday P.M. Nov 4th Hello Ann I am again at this dear old spot- this time only ... what I can gather from other sources. I am very pleased and especially as Anderson one of the boys ... I came over with in the old New York is the only other officer going that I know of. It is something very ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:10pm

  6. Letter from Eardley, Thomas Ernest

    December 19th 1914 Dear Mother We are very busy now drilling in Medicine Hat, I thought that we ... whitch. We are having very cold weather now I shall be very glad when we leave Canada. I havent been up to ... a $1.10 cents a day or £4 7d per day English money, & our feed. The have given us very good warm ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:06pm

  7. Letter from Stagg, William Fraser

    chum & my sweetheart these days. You haven't written to me for such a long time & I do ... raining outside & the waves are breaking on the beach not very roughly but as if they were very tired ... its not a very nice day to play there. tho' I've seen children there last week I expect its ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 6:05am

  8. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

    4 Squadron R. F. C. B. E. F France 7/9/17 My Dear Mother. It takes such a long time for letters to ... sure all have had a good time. You can't imagine how glad I am that you have had the trip. I am ... sure the change will do you good even if you are tired for a time you will benefit from it later on. ...

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

  9. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

    truthfully say I had a very good time on the whole. During the whole time I only had one working party and ... probability having a decent time. The tramp back here in the early hours of Sunday morning was very tiring and ... the duty is very light and so far I have been permitted to lay down in the billet and rest. So if I do ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:20pm

  10. Letter from New Liskeard Speaker

    a very trying time these last two weeks. They have made a musketry instructor out of me. I don't ... letter is a wee bit short to-night. I only have a few minutes to spare and I am very tired. I have had ... everything. Canterbury is a pretty place, and the people were very nice too. We met a couple of nice girls up ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:59pm