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  1. Platt, Henry Errol Beauchamp

    overseas with the 35th Battalion.   Platt was serving with the 3rd Battalion at the time of his death on ... of these typed copies that have been included with each letter.  ...

    Editor - Mar 4 2024 - 6:41pm

  2. Diary from Kempling, George Hedley

    Batts, each with their ammunition mule train, and general transport column for the whole. We were ... to go into the trenches for the first time tomorrow night. Army WWI Europe Belgium Diary 1916 August ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:44pm

  3. Letter from Hunter, John Allan

    away for another year. This war is liable to end any time. We are giving Fritz hell on all sides. The ... weather is getting cooler now and they issued us each a blanket not long ago altho we don't take them ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:58pm

  4. Letter from Nicholson, Ewen

    see that I'm in the land of the living as far. We have [?] having a lively time of it and we hope ... each and all From your affec Brother Adress as usual Army WWI North America Canada Letter to soldier ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 10:45pm

  5. Letter from Lightbody, Alexander

    Mary each a pair of souvenir wooden shoes and a braclet made of Dutch coins, Hope the parcel gets ... in my time but those the two of you wrote sure took the cake. Guess this is the lot for now ...

    Editor - Aug 31 2023 - 2:33pm

  6. Diary from Newton, John

    be rolling completely under each time but always bobs up serenely. The 203rd Bttn gave a concert in ... Batt'n from Glengarry bound for overseas. Capt. Omond holds church service in each car in the evening. ... in Ontario. French village after village, each house whitewashed and each village with its large ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 3 2023 - 9:37am

  7. Letter from Lane, Daniel Austin

    men & a mess orderly gives out the food to each one. As we all sit at the same time you see there ... time to bother with paragraph separation. I expect to get my six days landing leave in about two weeks ... mess-tables at which we ate. Each table had 3 tins, with which two mess orderlies from each table, who were ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:06pm

  8. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

    idea just how hot it was, but we spent our spare time trying to keep cool. Last night it rained, in ... some ways it seems quite that but in most ways the time has passed very quickly. The first few days ... howitzer, and the other with a 9.2 inch howitzer. Both were interesting and at times exciting. It gives one ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:34pm

  9. Letter from Turner, Arthur Lawrence

    each boot every time he goes into the tent and blankets clothes and equipment soon get well coated with ... times whilst there and once it was really serious. I had a cake in each hand (newly purchased at the ... after dinner. This time there were 34 of us in a small cattle car. We slept sardine fashion, each man ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Oct 12 2022 - 1:57pm

  10. Letter from Ellis, John Walter

    him take me up I get so shakey at times I can't control myself I'd never be able to shoot ... if you only knew how each minute & each hour I worry & think of my darlings. Give my little ...

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