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  1. Letter from Row, John, Jr.

    hope of getting his. We are having very dull weather here just now and it was dusk at 4:30 today. One ... Xmas with them which is out of the question as only troops from France are allowed to travel on account ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:03am

  2. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

    and they had to have everything packed. They were not allowed to take any kit bags either; they had to ... won't be very long. So the next letter you get I may be on my way. I hope to God I am. They're not ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:28pm

  3. Letter from MacKinnon, Ronald

    will be allowed up here or not or whether he will be discharged or not. I will go up and see Lily and ... to Toronto to meet you coming home. Mother has not been well lately. Her rheumatics have been very ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 12:43pm

  4. Letter from Davis, William Worth

    complaining tho, because I am very fortunate. There are millions up the line with ten times this to put up ... back home. The time and place of our new home, are still very uncertain as apparently a blunder has ... a good time here, that I do not want to return. If you think going ten days without taking the clothes ...

    Editor - Mar 16 2023 - 4:42pm

  5. Letter from Ramsey, Edward Cresswell

    for some time now. And we have had splendid weather all the time. I have seen Ch. very often which of ... would like a letter very much. But as soon as she has time she will try You know Mother dear she and her ... Charlotte that Eve wanted to write to her but that she had so very little time, but she does not seem to ...

    Editor - Nov 23 2021 - 7:06am

  6. Memoir from Richards, Ralph

    I worked with, although getting very little himself, always gave me one slice of his bread. Lunch time was ... changed hands many times. Leaving our jumping off trench just before dawn, we advanced into ... road. The Germans offered very little resistance but many of our men were killed by bursting shells. The ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Mar 5 2024 - 11:47am

  7. Letter from Haddow, George Caldwell

    last Sat was a holiday – Dominion Day – for the Canadians the British Cyclists very kindly pitched our ... impossible things if they don’t get better accommodation in a short time. We are hoping that we may shortly ... and is a terror to blow, but is very good natured and likable. Then there is ‘Mitch’, who was an ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

  8. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    Am sending very few personally, only to you & Mary, to my brothers and sisters, to the Haggmans, ... appreciation of the cigarettes, which I rarely take time to acknowledge as they arrive in individual parcels. ... be very busy, but am glad you have booked a consultation for M, even if you have to wait I wish we ...

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

  9. Letter from Davis, Lena Aloa

    and the patients were always asking me the time so I used the money in getting a clock for the mantle ... more we have to take substitutes. Now before I go any further I must tell you of a very delicious box ... thing more terrible happening. The disaster at Halifax will bring the war very close home to some of the ...

    Editor - Mar 1 2022 - 2:19pm

  10. Letter from Thompson, John Alexander Selter

    didn’t spoil the candy any. It wasn’t quite such a hard trip coming out of the line this time. We only ... out to church, in a church that has been hit a few times with shells from the look of it. We have been ... as well get used to it one time as another. There is still lots of fruit around here grapes & ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm