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1. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   — a Brigade parade — and who do you think is to be there? The “Dook.” Quite like old Canadian times again. ... the date in mind, and remember the news of this time when you get this. Things are stirring in our ... of fifteen francs each. I think that rotten myself; they could easily have slipped in one more, or ...

   Editor - Mar 8 2022 - 3:51pm

2. Letter from Copeland, Arthur Harold Madill

   clew [meaning: ball of yarn/thread] and managed to get some letters sent on. About the same time my ... know things which were not good for them to know. As I may be here for some time I shall just add ... there have not been many summers that I was not, at least for a short time, in the woods. I think ...

   Editor - Apr 9 2022 - 6:05am

3. Letter from McLellan, William John

   didn't I? The latest is that each Coy of the original 196th are reinforcing the B'n from each of the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:28pm

4. Letter from Brown, Robert Gordon

   it will likely be done is for one section (half the battery, two subsections and as each subsection ... is being completely broken up. I think in each, it is the leading Battery that is split up- the one ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 1:49am

5. Letter from Rowat, Thomas Alexander

   generally at home, and said I would send a like amount each month or else have it assigned from Ottawa. By ... orderly room and mess, so that we have to travel about six miles each day. There are lots of lorries ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

6. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   March 17th, 1941 Dear Mom, I just got back from a wonderful time, the most enjoyable leave I have ... way to the YMCA. So I thanked him and off we started. I thought at the time he was pretty dirty and ... That is just one fine example of the co-operation Londoners are giving each other, each one is doing ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:40pm

7. Letter from Winterbottom, Sydney Amyas

   with the pad propped on my knees. Ambrose and Brown are putting in time cussing each other (in fun) ... precise time it should have, the day before I went on leave. But please don’t forward me any more of my ... Brown and Pemberton. Both had enough beer inside of make them feel good. Well each got angry because he ...

   Editor - Oct 3 2022 - 2:54pm

8. Letter from Dunfield, Marvin Neil

   every official time piece. At exactly 5:30 the earth split asunder and vomited forth living sheets of ... lines on account of shell craeters which fair linked each other leaving in some places only narrow ... impossible to differentiate. By this time the enemy began to speak and here and there men silently slipped ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

9. Diary from Whyte, James Claude

   fine weather than any other time. We only praticed this A.M. & this afternoon we played for ... turn out very good but hope for better luck next time. I got ten shillings from Vivian to-day Thursday, ... for pass time the evenings darkens quickly Friday, October 5th, 1917 We froze on P.Y. this A.M. We had ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:36pm

10. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

    Billy has been "happening" over there, after tea, or at tea-time the last while & Neatie ... any day now, so I'll be fixed for a long time. I think the flour will last till about the end of ... time we finished the children came in- so it did for supper- just bread & jelly & a piece of ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:36am