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  1. Letter from McNeill, John

    I have started at a bad time though, as a bombardment has just started & it is hard to say how long ... they are full of water, our feet & legs are sopping wet all the time & I shall be mighty lucky ... I will probably get dried out again, I can tell you kilts are all right in the summer time & for ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm

  2. Letter from Haddow, George Caldwell

    that next year at this time we shall all be together again. Ever since arriving here, in the rain last ... parade so it takes most of your leisure time getting fixed up. Then we have been suddenly called out for ... inspection several times and yesterday we moved into different huts. Nobody knows why we were sent down here ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

  3. Letter from Gordon, Alexander MacLennan

    this brigade, spent some time with each, and arranged for today’s services. This morning we held them. ... at that very time our Canadian troops were in the thick of a fierce fight. At noon sudden orders came ... much time for sleep, and I found to my surprise that I could go on day after day with as little sleep ...

    Editor - Jan 3 2024 - 8:06am

  4. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

    in France and each has seen me a different place. I wonder where I shall be next Sunday. I hope it ... apt to become rather monotonous after a time and what is more it was of considerable help to me. It is ... been wiped off but I don't spend more than I make at the most as I am alright for a time. I hope ...

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

  5. Letter from Billard, Lewis G.

    queerest machine was an eight-wheeled armoured car With a steering wheel for each four pairs of wheels. ... Hotel Statler. (Some place!) By three o'clock in the morning we figured it was time we went back to ... rollers, to begin the process again. Two balls would be bouncing at once, so that the timing was perfect. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:54pm

  6. Memoir from Ives, Raymond Ellsworth

    Newfoundland. Visit to stoke hold. 20 below water line 15 boilers 45 fires 3 for each stoke men who slave in ... most of time spent in lying about the decks those able, did life boat drill and P.T. Afternoon of 9th ... excitment. We hardly take time to eat so interested are we in the surrounding country and nights. Scots, ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:36pm

  7. Letter from Scherer, George Leslie

    they put nine men with all their equipment in each tent and we hardly had room to turn around in. Out ... 5 pairs of homemade ones. I think I would make a pretty fair wash woman in time- if I could only learn to ... economise on the soap- I used up a whole cake on 5 pairs of soap. How's that for war time economy eh? ...

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

  8. Letter from Brown, Robert Gordon

    for a few days so that your mail may be irregular. This time, there was a reason for it. We got ... trouble with his heart, he will be unable to go to France for some time. His address now is- 1st C.C.F. ... a very short one and contained merely some news of the college and the year. I guess the girls were each ...

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

  9. Letter from Brown, Robert Gordon

    leaving next day. It had come thru in almost record time, being only about 5 weeks since I first put in ... time, and tho his papers were right next mine, yet they chose to separate them there. I don't know ... as one might think. They all wished me luck and hoped I would have a good time in Blighty. It was ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 1:54am

  10. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    back, a mile each way, and up hill on the last stretch home, just enough to neutralize the beer. He made ... old friend who is not too well. In ordinary years he used to make that visit by car, but this time had ... pulling with me for whatever comes along. The weather here has been lousy. To think that this is the time ...

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