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1. Letter from Reid, Donald Calderwood

   Hedley very well but please convey to him my sincere congratulations and tell him I think him a very ... a time at least. We have been quite busy at times, just now are getting a good many convoys of wounded. ... having a rest from the ward as I hold the very responsible position of night [?]. It isn't as ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:27pm

2. Letter from Shortreed, Robert

   this time your holiday will be over and you will either be back at the hospital or in your new position ... very seldom seen over here, or at least I have not seen any cases although the infantry may bet it ... now. Elizabeth is certainly having quite a time. She did not tell me about passing her Exam. I guess ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:43am

3. Letter from Martyn, William Wallace Haig

   the boys just out from England think the weather very hot here, but we feel quite chilly at times ... hundreds of hours flying. I hear he also has a very diplomatic manner and knows what wheels to grease, etc. ... and should do very well. Hoare looks just a boy but must be 21 or 22 at least and perhaps older. All ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:11am

4. Letter from Matthews, Cuthbert King

   probably very dirty. I dont know whether this letter will ever reach you for the envelope is very flimsy. ... time. There has been quite a lot of aerial activity. I counted as many as sixteen observation balloons ... our lines & flying very low so that all our anti aircraft shrapnel was bursting away past him. We ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:47am

5. Letter from Redman, George Henry

   very fine weather here now and I think it is nearly time for we have had a very wet time ever since ... last Nov the boys in the trenches must have had an awful time, we have no idea when we will be going up ... a while butter marmalade cheese hard biscuets and stew, the stew is not very appetising and of the rest it ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:03am

6. Letter from Beattie, Reverend William

   and searchlights of the enemy, gave us from time to time light to see in what a gruesome business we ... 10th. For hours at a time the roar of guns is like the roar of an angry summer thunder storm. Shells ... and Victory will surely be ours. Our men are very confident and in the best of spirits. It is ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:23am

7. Letter from Ellis, Hadden William

   the time, but its not very pleasant around sometimes when Fritz starts shelling. Again thanking you ... surprized me but as you say this world is not so very large after all. If your writing and the run of your ... of Dur[?] didn't think you remember me very well you say he is tall like I was wish I could say ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 10:48am

8. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   very amused with your account of Mary's experiments in shoving at the canoing discs, poor child, ... I can see myself doing just such a stunt. Hope your having better weather than we are. Its been very ... I was practically all the time. One spot where there is a fork, and it is important to take the right ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:19am

9. Memoir from Bland, George

   Perhaps high Air Force casualty rate not known at that time. 5. Sent to U.K. Fall of 1941. Posted to RAF ... George Bland of Wiltshire. He was at that time a F/O and I don't know whether he made it through the ... to make the Service people visiting Hull feel at home. 11. Following discharge I had very little ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 4:31am

10. Letter from Hudgins, Major

    same mail, which is very likely.  Well, the boys and I went into action on the twenty fourth of April ... and had it very nice for two or three days.  Very quiet I mean.  But things couldn’t last forever, so ... to look for my tin hat and another struck the parapet and buried me in a second time.  I don’t know ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm