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1. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   and a gale of wind blew so hard even walking was difficult. As far as was possible we had a good time ... sky was exactly like summer lightning as you have seen it flickering scores of times. Today is very ... now and then. Also all within a mile of each other are three or four coal mines, all going full blast. ...

   Editor - Mar 7 2022 - 3:43pm

2. Letter from Gray, Robert Hampton

   the time you get this the first shock will be all gone and you will be beginning to realize the whole ... much to me. If only I had realized at the time how much they really did mean. One thing we can be ... to tell him. The big trouble is that he hasn’t told either of these girls about the other one so each ...

   Editor - Jul 13 2022 - 1:55pm

3. Letter from Davis, William Worth

   working all the time, trying to find a germ responsible for this disease. Those snaps are certainly fine, ... kitchen, and will have a couple taken in there. We had it quite cold here about the time you wrote (Sept ... her suitcases. They are so much alike nowadays, that it pays to have your initials painted on each ...

   Editor - Feb 1 2023 - 11:56am

4. Letter from Davis, William Worth

   a long time. That was some letter I wrote mother on Sunday, but I did not say half I wanted to at that, ... larger than the one containing the camera, and put candy in each end of it with the camera, in the middle ... really dirty and my work shows some result. It will take some little time to get the place in shape, but ...

   Editor - Feb 1 2023 - 12:14pm

5. Letter from Charman, Frances

   in last night. Needless to say, I was up many times. My two roommates never heard a sound. We were ... a box. I want you to know I enjoyed it more than I would opening it along with the others. Each package ... She gives English lessons and music. Well, back to the cookies. Madame cut the cookies each in half ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:35pm

6. Memoir from Bracewell, Maurice Wilfred

   parapet into no man's land through short lengths of hose that were attached to each cylinder. ... When the time planned for the raid arrived, wind conditions were unfavourable so it was postponed for ... three days. At the end of the time the weather was still unfavourable, so a further delay of two days ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 11:13am

7. Newspaper Article from Fardoe, George Samuel

   weariness, heavy with the reaction of nerves too long on the rack. In all that time he had scarcely tasted ... food, for there was little time to be had and excitement had robbed him of appetite. The thought of the ... 1877 he was engaged in the work of surveying Western Palestine, later spending a short time in the ...

   Editor - May 2 2022 - 7:19am

8. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

   quiet. Of course there have been short bombardments almost every day. There is never a time when you ... we could hardly hear each other speaking. The loud sharp reports of the field guns which were ... comparatively quiet and we are in little or no danger. The time that Lantz was killed they were in the cook ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:26am

9. Letter from Dickson, William Haslam

   orders Tuesday to be ready to move to Knoxville Tenn a new camp site and each Co had 1 Corporal and ... on with a chill and a burning fever at the same time the Dr gave me some "pills" and said ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:41am

10. Letter from Brown, Robert Gordon

    be four fillings, two on each side of the lower jaw, but that's as much as they did. About ... a couple of weeks ago, one of my teeth began aching again for about three days and this time my jaw swelled ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:31pm