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  1. Letter from Robertson, Charles Eric

    63 Belgrave Bd. S.W. 3/5/16 Dear Ones All, It seems a long time since I last wrote home but I do ... late. With love in abundance to each one of you. Yours as always, Eric.   Air Force WWI Great Britain ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

  2. Letter from Winterbottom, Sydney Amyas

    every soldier is armed with at least two black little pear shaped bombs each weighing a pound. They are ... get in its way as if they were matches, and all the time belching out a hail of lead from its numerous ...

    Editor - Sep 30 2022 - 7:52am

  3. Letter from Davis, William Worth

    or have orders for more than eighty, most of which are one shilling each. A few are the smaller ones ... on regular time now, and it gets quite dusk about seven, which is not at all interesting. In fact, ...

    Editor - Mar 16 2023 - 2:36pm

  4. Letter from Law, John William

    a real good time with every moment taken up that it was impossible to find more time than to address one ... stations and did not see each other till we got to London. That shows you just how much we can rely on each ... it was much better to see the real thing and prettier then times over. The roads all the way up are ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:40am

  5. Memoir from Arnold, Wayne H.

    from Bragg Creek, who had often requested to visit the O.C. One such time was after his meeting with ... the train?" At this time I stepped forward, demanding that Major Wilson immediately apologize. ... a security watch and I had to relieve each of the 16 guards every two hours. The only trouble I had was with ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:16pm

  6. Letter from MacDonell, Malcolm James

    a a strange feeling comes over one when in such a place which is very hard to describe. It is a long time ... a long time how such work could be put up so high and so well that it would reain there hundreds of ... and the rest of the time the building was filled with music from the organ. Leaving many points of ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

  7. Letter from Dickson, William Haslam

    before last, but since my foot got well they are making me pay up for lost time in the way of work and ... till 5PM at 6.30 comes guard mount which is a verry pretty sight there is six men detailed from each Co ... I never saw such rain it was my luck to be on watch when it came and it came just in time to put out all ...

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

  8. Letter from MacKay, Gordon Rae

    time you get my letter. I think that the end of the war is pretty close at hand & I think that is ... an authority but I think he has missed his guess this time (I) give it to the first of July. I am ... & I wanted to send you each something before leaving England. I sent Jessie a sheet of music ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:00pm

  9. Letter from McLorg, Francis Harold

    some of the other poor devils. The journey should not take anything like that length of time, but the ... front line at the time when and on the place where the enemy is going to attack you are wiped out. The ... lost what to do. Compton and the others had 4 bombs each (rifles out of action) they immediately ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:40pm

  10. Letter from Johnson, Thomas William

    morning. Everything is spotlessly clean, the beds having each a white spread. Strictest attention is paid ... time" was often a thing to be forgotten. There too all were "sisters", i.e., graduate nurses. ... Hadfield was just fine spending quite a bit of time with me in conversation. Another was a Mrs Cunard, of ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 7:02pm