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1. Letter from Rowat, Thomas Alexander

   as before. Formerly I made an effort to write at least after each tour, i.e. once every eight days, ... but now since the larger part of my days are occupied in the same way each day, the days slip by ... without noticing the flight of time. We had a few days of cool weather, bright and sunny days, and the ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

2. Letter from McNeill, John

   not get time to let you know I was coming before I left England, I only had a day & a half to get ... Batt. I have been kept very busy ever since & have not had much time to myself as things are moving ... over some time this year. Things are a whole lot different now to what they were when I was here before ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm

3. Letter from Rooke, (Robert, Charles, and George)

   steaming through a lovely smooth sea with the sun getting stronger and stronger every day. Each day at noon ... there is a perceptible difference in the height of the sun & each night the North Star is nearer the ... have made up for lost time in the way of eating. I have nothing very interesting to tell you this time ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:42am

4. Letter from Row, John, Jr.

   time now. The 29th from Vancouver and the 31st from Calgary are here. The 28th will be next to us. The ... fours. At the end of each battalion's lines there is a cook shack for the battalion and a field ... kitchen for each company. The field kitchens are like a stove on two wheels. The stove has four large ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:10am

5. Letter from Hamm, Charles Bovyer

   we will be out at New Years we expect a good time. The weather has been pretty fair for nearly ... a week. The only frost we have had so far was nearly a month ago I suppose you all had a good time at ... Xmas. I am sending you a souvenir in the form a the Xmas Card given to each man by the Chaplains of our ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 11:50am

6. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

   minutes before the time for each- form up & be marched by companies into the Dining Hall- a waste of ... we have- on the top of very little time- the poorest facilities for doing any. Each hut has a table ... & ten days in all of our time here flown by. We had two continuously wet days on Tuesday & ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:35am

7. Letter from Creswell, George Elliot

   time. They serve us a very nice meal and its possible to get an egg each Saturday at the hotel we stay ... Canada. We have to sleep in tin huts which are very cold and its really cold this time of the year. They ... time we were there. Thats probably the reason for us being so lazy now. I'm still with the same ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:31pm

8. Letter from Mercer, Richard William

   to get a letter from me from L-pool. I am on leave [185]  and having quite a nice time. I stayed in ... has chosen to spend some personal private time in this hotel. As the letter is dated 26 January and he ... England and prior to their emigration to Canada in 1906. [189] This letter is being written from a hotel. ...

   Editor - Nov 30 2021 - 11:09am

9. Letter from Pecover, William Markle

   sitting in the YMCA hut waiting for the concert to start, & I will utilize this time (which we find ... our training grounds, where we work all day. Our training here is very practical, & no time is ... to wear our gas helmets & have gone thro' the deadly gas with them on. Each day we are ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

10. Letter from Sanderson, Perry Hooper

    will be but is alright, I guess. Machine guns are coming to be more important all the time, each ... Shornclff June 14, 1915 Hello Tad I take up the quill and at the same time the burden of writing ... soldiering here than it was in Winnipeg. You collect your rations each meal, eat them out of your mess tin ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 3:09am