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  1. Letter from Stubbs, Robin Anthony

    time I think we will have finished most of our wings tests also. We are going to start our wings ... mph and height 300 feet each side of where it should be. I had a successful precision flight today. In ... obtain the course to fly home and how long it will take. Then under the hood again and when the time is ...

    Editor - Jun 7 2023 - 11:46am

  2. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

    better. I have some cash to last me for three weeks and I shall not want [?] for some time to come so it ... very good of her to send such nice things. The [?] has just turned up in the nick of time- there being ... received 26 or 27 letters from me as I write at least one each day to home. You will easily be able to tell ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:14pm

  3. Letter from McArthur, John Alexander

    were my dear little girl but I suppose we made it quite plain at times that we liked each other ... of the good times we used to have. Of course I do on other days too but more on Sun! It is raining ... France. I am not very crazy about going there this time of the year as it is the worst there now. After ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:47pm

  4. Letter from Todd, Roderick Anderson

    Exter is a historic place, I note one place in town where they have a tablet to commemorate the time ... education in the last year or so- education which I never would have gotten in peace times. It is an ill ... to leave the people here, when the time comes. That won't be for some time tho, mother. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:45am

  5. Letter from Foote, Harry Henry

    Rimouski and stayed there a couple of days and after that we moved nearly every night and each time we ... It was rotten the way we had to kill time while waiting some boys could catch jelly fish in a pail ... are always having a hard time keeping 10 knots. Our boat used to stop about 5 times a day on account ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:05am

  6. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

    [censured] March 17th, 1943 Dear Mom, By the time you read this, you will know that I am back in ... danger, even though they may never think of Him at other times? When we got back to the mess Hall about ... woke up until 5.00 AM. and by the time I had got into my kit, it was time to march off to the station. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:09pm

  7. Letter from Davis, William Worth

    I wrote you, and it is not that I have not time now either, but I just keep putting it off. I am on my ... sister, are boarding down town. You see, in this branch of the service, writing, mending, reading,, time ... We are supposed to get one pass till midnight each week, but have to get a supply, which is of course ...

    Editor - Feb 9 2023 - 9:42am

  8. Letter from Skeet, Frank

    that Ruby is getting on all right and that she is sending him a cake, and one for me at the same time ... the extra slice. At meal times we seem to get good appetites since we got to Blighty, but don't ... be thinking we are having one good old time, but I guess they all ended when we left Canada. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 4:51pm

  9. Letter from Turner, Arthur Lawrence

    then collected the Trench Mortar Shells – one each 60lbs and started off. The guide lost us twice and ... 6am. There were 3 of us from each Company and a sergt (13 men altogether) whilst the rest of the ... that we were on these shifts and so had 8hrs work and plenty of time to sleep also plenty to eat and ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Oct 12 2022 - 2:01pm

  10. Letter from Aikin, David

    have a good time on their long journey We met several of our old friends in London that had been ... time. Along this route we seen the old familiar scenes that we had seen several times before on our way ... up to each other and look as if they were about 40 rods wide and two miles long the Roads are about ...

    Editor - Mar 31 2023 - 9:57am