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1. Letter from Rooke, (Robert, Charles, and George)

   Africa My dear Mother, Since I wrote you last, we have been expecting to start for the front at any time ... a favourable report of us, so that we might get away as soon as possible. At present we are catching a lot of ... we do not have much time to ourselves. A great many of the fellows, however, seem to have time to get ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:42am

2. Diary from Scales, Harold Wilcox

   their kits packed. By taking special street cars to dock we catch the boat. Fairly rough trip to ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:43pm

3. Letter from Row, John, Jr.

   scenery with a fog blowing in from the lake. I wish I had brought a camera to to catch the effects of the ...

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

4. Postcard from Gill, Leslie Francis

   no 8 now, due in Montreal 11.15 AM. I catch the 7.30 PM out of there and arrive in Halifax about 10PM ...

   Editor - Aug 2 2023 - 10:22am

5. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   sooner but it just seemed to be that every time I tried to set out, something stopped me. I have had ... thinking about you anyway. Well, tomorrow I'm going trout fishing for the first time in many years as ... they trout fish in this country with worms and catch them too. Pop, the fellow I'm going fishing ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:12pm

6. Letter from Davey, Harold Keith

   bunch of us went to one and had a great time getting home in time to get up again and catch a train for ... catching the 820 train for Holyhead, Wales from where I caught a boat for Dublin. I managed to get a first ... money was about finished, which I might say is the only reason I am returning on time. I left London ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 4:39am

7. Letter from Sproule, Hugh Charles

   am trying to catch up by writing you, for you are first consideration.   You will remember that ... I told you in my last letter, that some times circumstances would not permit me to write often. Also if ... now?   Just where we are now, I am not allowed to say, but some time ago we were in a place in the ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

8. Letter from Lightbody, Alexander

   catch a faint whiff of the lifebouy now and then too. Never mind. The soap we get over here is worse ... popsie) when I met him. Her cousin was there at the time so we had a hang of a party. Bags of panic. Am ... along too. Only lost 2/6 the last time I played. Simply didn’t have a clue. I bashed an old Hurricane ...

   Editor - Aug 31 2023 - 12:15pm

9. Letter from Rooke, (Robert, Charles, and George)

   time, as I told her to send the letter on to you. We have been on the steady go ever since we left ... in our Brigade believe it will come to anything. The worst time we have had yet was last Wed. Our ... miles in 22 hours, having only one biscuit per man to eat the whole time. It was worse than half a dozen ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:43am

10. Letter from Martyn, William Wallace Haig

    catch me for awhile at R.A.F. Station Evanton Scotland, but as long as you state 801 Squadron, it should ... reach me in time. Aunt Ida had sent me two letters from Toronto and Blatchford had written to tell me of ... Blatchford's picture appeared in Edmonton papers. I have just spent some time in a Link Trainer- very ingenious ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:16am