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  1. Letter from Shortreed, Robert

    leave until I did know her exact whereabouts. However it was a very opportune time to be in Paris and ... present time. I did not answer your last letters as I wrote a long letter home about five days ago which ... would answer several letters I found on my return from leave. By this time you will have received my ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:46am

  2. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

    a splendid speaker and a very good sermon and then the sacrament was dispensed at the close of the service to ... hardest day's work I have done since joining the battery but I got on very well. Think my chances are ... very good. I think all the fellows did very well. We will not get the results for a couple of weeks ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:23am

  3. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

    does not have a very comfortable time of it there. There's nothing like keeping one's own ... time, it is like this the beginning of every spring our cold weather is past, but I suppose you are ... am kept pretty busy the whole time. I received your parcel No. 3 in splendid condition on the 20th ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:46am

  4. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

    a belt of my own- (for the time being) my present job being a full dress one belt, bayonet, & puttees ... rarely eat the army stuff, whilst I have done very little reinforcing except from your parcels until ... coming from hospital since when I have been getting eggs & milk tow or three times a week. And in ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 5:01am

  5. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    4 December- and one from Gertrude and one from Eric Garman. The time for the fastest was just about 2 weeks, ... although I suspect that they don't travel very fast from the point of arrival in this country to our ... since- not even a cold- It has not been a very exciting work- sometimes I don't seem to get much ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 1:18am

  6. Letter from Davis, Lena Aloa

    every body is very busy. I think your new spring suit must look very stunning.  Glad to know the Turkish ... is necessary to think about two months ahead of time out here in order to arrange anything at home.  ... put me on a diet of clear tea for all day and perhaps I am not hungry this very minute.  Tell Miss ...

    Editor - Mar 1 2022 - 2:40pm

  7. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

    cheerful lot it has been my luck to fall in with. The grounds are very beautiful too, flowers everywhere ... quite the opposite. She is very charming). No false modesty here or air of inferiority for- like all ... notables come through quite regularly, we welcome her the most for she allows us no chance to feel sorry ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:34pm

  8. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    Dear Jean: Am going to beat the game this time, and write your letter tonight. Tomorrow promises ... who is OC of the Survey Coy. He is a great fellow, and his friends are very nice too. Jack Andrews has ... recently been promoted to Corporal, and feels very happy about it. His folks at Abbotsford will be pleased ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 2:18am

  9. Letter from Adams, George Walter

    remembered. Your letter arrived on the 21st so it was nearly in time. Edie gave me Black Silk for a dress (for ... her wedding), Nora two very nice initialed hanks & she is going to buy me a spring hat, too. Ernie ... of trains going to the Exhibition soon, so perhaps by the time your train comes that is where we ...

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

  10. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

    was so sick of bumming and will be very glad when I get back on the job. I am quite well enough to be ... at work and yet I have been just putting in time and having a poor one at that. I have been to all ... feel quite lazy after very little exertion. I don't know what the conscientious objector must feel ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:31pm