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1. Letter from McDougall, John Alexander

   Some Where in France Jan. 3-17. Dear Mother,- I am taking time to write you another letter that is ... I am going to put my address here because the will not allow us to put it at the beginning or the end ... see that girls I will pay the expenses if I have that much money. We are having very wet weather the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:41pm

2. Letter from McLellan, William John

   beans are heavy & we get an issue rather often so that eliminates that. Now pickles I eat very few ... Winnipeg & we trade around I really enjoy you parcel immensely but I cant allow you the expense & ... our face in occasionally. Saw a few Fritzys early one evening but he seems very scarce & I guess ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:30pm

3. Letter from Weeks, Ludlow Jackson

   except to our "mokes". Am still about 10 miles from [?] Don't expect to be here very long ... though [?] can't say for sure. We got some very good news this morning we were told that the 4th ... I wish I hasn't lost my camera for we are allowed to use them over here now. Am enclosing seven ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:25am

4. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

   round-house beside the Rideau Canal. The city must be very beautiful in summer, as there are many beautiful ... yesterday we saw nothing but fir trees and more fir trees which got very tiresome. I was a little ... allowed to leave the train at several points and it was funny to see the boys tearing over the hill to the ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

5. Letter from Johnson, Thomas William

   you will like for they are nearly all of places I have visited at one time or another. But the news we ... I was not allowed to see the plate, but I stole a march on them, & saw it. I see that there are ... joints is very ragged indeed but I dont think that that will affect my future. I am feeling better & ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 7:08pm

6. Letter from Chesney, Margaret Helen

   leave was swell but so very short. It seemed all I did was get home and it was time to come back again. ... may have to lose his finger. For old time sake was going to visit him but found no visitors allowed ... I was very glad you got down for the week end, hope you arrived back O.K.! and ran into no more little ...

   Editor - Jan 29 2022 - 9:29am

7. Letter from Hale, Robert

   mind Alice. The right one will turn up some day, don't worry. I am looking forward to the time ... course, if I am allowed to do so. Do you think I will be? So Harold takes my part does he? I am glad to ... news to write this time little girl. The war is still on and all that sort of thing, which of course ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:40pm

8. Letter from Hill, William Lowrie

   day time. We are allowed a small fire in the reserves also to do a little cooking and it certainly ... allow you to light a fire in the front line trenches, so you can imagine what it is like in there for ... time they had. Well you know the affect it has on us, but we have the misatisfaction ours is yet to ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Mar 9 2022 - 12:22pm

9. Letter from Johnson, Thomas William

   I was very sorry indeed to hear of it, and hope with all my heart that you have recovered long before ... lapse of time that is now necessary! Sympathy written on paper seems cold and meaningless. But never ... The censor in this battalion, too, allows but a limited number of letters, and says they must be ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 11:39pm

10. Letter from Trotter, Bernard Freeman

    are into theory this week, and have a good deal of study to occupy out time. Mother's of May 2, ... summer weather. The country is even more beautiful than on my earlier visit. Of course it was supper-time ... Kirkby Muxloe, and home. We reached Thurlaston a little before church time, and were able to have a look ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:15pm