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  1. Letter from Bridges, Jeannette "Nettie" Drysdale

    evening without the girls so it is a good time to get some letters written. When we are all off together ... we generally go out or else waste our time talking. To-morrow we arranged to have our half day ... together and we are going up to Town. First time since we have come & it is just 3 wks tonight since we ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

  2. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    about a mile away- catch a bus there to a somewhat larger town where we have to catch a different bus ... time to write directly. I went up to Lorne's mess the other night for dinner & evening- they ... English mess for 2 bob a day- with afternoon tea thrown in. I am still very busy- and the time goes fast. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:43am

  3. Letter from Drader, Eugene Robert

    eleven and our course had just finished at 10.30 so you see that I had to skip to catch a train away down ... good time;  for my part absolutely ripping but one can’t speak for them.  Got back to work here Monday ... can imagine the way one feels.  Had a fairly good time in London although they worked us pretty hard.  ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:06pm

  4. Diary from Dawkins, Arnold F.A.

    Essen last night with only two crash landings and one fatality. Back to Oakham to catch the train for ... I discovered my train from there has left one quarter of an hour earlier. By this time I was pretty sleepy so ... cash out of the P.O. bank and catch the 6:30 for Leicester. We arrived about an hour later, secured ...

    Editor - Apr 20 2022 - 3:39pm

  5. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    beach tree, one I had lopped all the branches off the last time, it was the biggest yet. Got it all cut ... decide to emigrate to Canada. From what I can see, neither of them are showing definite signs of getting ... that some time ago, and he is not a man to go back on his word. I am pretty well convinced that it ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:15am

  6. Letter from Cobourg World

    over just like a dead bird. We could see it all the time from our guns, as it was just a short distance ... p.m. Some of the boys are writing and some lying down having a little snooze. We catch all the sleep we ... culminated in this morning's successful attack. We have leaned heavily on you many times in the past and ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:52pm

  7. Letter from Charman, Frances

    Arabs. We have no water-most of the time toilets won't flush, etc. etc. Such cheap plumbing. Right ... I couldn't seem to catch him on the fly, so I ducked under my mosquito netting for the duration of the night. ... boys?' I haven't heard from Helen or Win for some time. However, had a letter from Scott this week, ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:33pm

  8. Letter from Richardson, Charles Douglas

    just exactly 6 months to the day from the time I enlisted. I shall always remember Easter Sunday this ... this far Steve and I found that Jim Brown had been gone about 3 weeks, so we are anxious to catch up to ... to go to town tomorrow. No doubt we shall have an interesting time trying to talk French. Steve has ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:08pm

  9. Letter from Watson, William Douglas

    July 11th, 1944 Well, it seems a long time since I wrote last-about a week in fact, but it seems ... about twice that time since I heard from you last. It hasn't been that long because I got that ... Birmingham for a rest. We got the same hotel room as last time and slept almost one complete day. We did ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 9:12pm

  10. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

    our spare time. It begins to look as if we are going to have more of the latter in the future than we ... done. It's more likely that they will make us finish-out our time. I should like to come home now ... learns what faith and trust in God really means and one sees probably for the first time how small and ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:26pm