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  1. Diary from White, Herbert Hill

    and changed hands nineteen times in a very short time was [surely] blown to pieces. We found many dead ... bodies here and pieces of bodies. Hundreds of rifles, equipment, etc. At the time we visited these ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:31pm

  2. Letter from Irwin, Herbert Laurier

    France April 21, 1917 Dear Dad, Not much time to write worst place yet. Got a letter from Scottie. ... I ever had all the time I've been over here. A shell hit between me and the lead team the other day. ... for a while as I haven't time for it Dad. Army WWI Europe France Letter from soldier 1917 April ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:49am

  3. Letter from MacKinnon, Archibald "Archie"

    Belgium, August 22, 1916 Dear Sister, It's such a long time since I wrote to you but ... I can't help it. I have too much work to do. I can't get time to write. I came out of the trenches ... the other night and am still OK. Have you heard from Ronald lately? I did some time ago and he said he ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 12:22pm

  4. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

    wrote me last Monday week- 29th July, 1918- arrived yesterday at dinner time; it took a week to come, ... "117"? If this letter arrives in time give her my very best wishes and thank her for remembering me. ... Thursday. Walter Elrick seems to be having a good time. It is a great pity that you can't fix up ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:22pm

  5. Letter from Richards, Edward Gordon Coke

    much time at present. The parcel arrived-I believe I mentioned it in my last letter. I sure was glad to ... months. That's a long time, isn't it, but it will soon be over, and I'll be walking in on ... air since I started. I'd like to see them all in peace time, but it would cost a fortune. I must ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 7:21pm

  6. Letter from Willoughby, Dr. Charles James McNeil

    a load of patients for the base. We had a very short stay in the city this time as we didn't arrive ... and with our good friends up in that town he should have a mighty fine time of it. Just the same I can ... not in the war Although invariably they are doing twelve times as much work as the average now over ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 11:15am

  7. Letter from Broome, Ronald Francis

    our mail until supper and it gets dark soon after so there isn't much time. I haven't been ... doing anything exciting lately, not even going to shows. I paid out all my pay this time so am out of ... debt but broke. I go on leave in a months time so don't be surprised if you get a wire asking you ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 12:11am

  8. Diary from Scales, Harold Wilcox

    Apr 25-May 18: in isolation all the time. Lazy time. In bed and on milk diet till May 11. Allowed ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:44pm

  9. Skidmore, Andrew H.

    1914 and served overseas during the war with the 1st B.C. Regiment, being wounded several times. The ... collection currently consists of three newspaper clippings, three postcards, and one photograph from his time ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Mar 6 2024 - 10:19am

  10. Letter from Brown, Jack Malcolm

    times, but aside from that I am O.K as usual. You asked me what I meant by Beesket. Well that is what the ... though, as we can procure it here most of the time. Thanks just the same. Yes I knew Billy Bryan, and the ... him the last time I was home. He was then living just out of Lyndhurst. You might mention me to him ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:25am