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1. Letter from McNeill, John

   I spend most of my time sitting around the beach enjoying the sea air & I can feel it doing me good ... all the time, I dont know how long they are going to keep me here, but I expect I will be some time ... perspiration, but that will work off in time, all I want is quietness & I will be all right, the board that ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm

2. Letter from Mercer, Richard William

   not had a letter from you for some time. We drove up from France on our motor cycles [125]  and we had ... some time too. My cycle [126]  broke down two miles outside of this camp and we were held up for four ... the time [130]. I received an excellent parcel from a girl named Evelyn Kidd of Wawota. She often ...

   Editor - Nov 30 2021 - 11:05am

3. Letter from Balfour, James Stevenson

   Hut 6. C.M.S. Crowborough Sussex Jan. 3/17 Dear Pa,- It is quite a long time since I have written ... has been to France most of them are only over from Canada a short time. It is quite a come down after ... Leonards-on-Sea. I stayed there all the time except two weeks, since moving down to St. Leonards It was costly but ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 1:39am

4. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   the last time I may see him till after the war, (hes going back to the States), I was glad to see him ... waiting and waiting for a definite decision from our CMHQ on my plans, getting fed up, at the same time ... tomorrow, but with luck I should have just enough time to clean up my report, it will be a bit abbreviated, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 11:54pm

5. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   many queer places where mail doesn't reach them very often, and after a long time in transit. ... tho it is monotonous, and plain at times. At home, where there is a bit wider choice, people are ... at all. Let me know each week how things are with your eyes. You may require glasses too. If so get ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 2:57am

6. Letter from Bridges, Jeannette "Nettie" Drysdale

   I first crossed. Mary & I have been put on night duty each in our own hospital. I should be asleep now ... duty. It is rather heavy just now and I don’t get any time for letter writing & sewing as I did in ... Leeds. I wrote to Mrs. Mackay this morning first time since we have been married and I had such a nice ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

7. Letter from Robertson, Charles Eric

   made me sore when I realized that they were actually firing at me- for they fired at us each in turn ... that time he got a couple of bullets into our engine which pierced both intake pipes. I pulled the old ... comparatively free from shell craters and barbed wire. After that we had a fine time. There was a certain ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

8. Letter from Davis, William Worth

   a good time here, that I do not want to return. If you think going ten days without taking the clothes ... sixteen miles without anything to eat or drink, constitutes a good time, I am having it. Do not think I am ... complaining tho, because I am very fortunate. There are millions up the line with ten times this to put up ...

   Editor - Mar 16 2023 - 4:42pm

9. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   that I fail miserably even though I can get one hundred per cent at ordinary times. But this time ... I don't think I did very well on my exams and my officer and I hate each other like poison which ... pilot's as to where you were at a certain time. He as much as told me on two occasions that he didn't ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:16pm

10. Letter from MacDonell, Malcolm James

    a sheltered spot at bn Hgs where we’ll be a good part of the time. Signallers, in general, are in good dugouts ... yesterday and enjoyed myself. It will be a long time before we forget our first impression of the imperial ... they don’t know what a good time they are having. Any Can. Camp is better than the best across here and ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm