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  1. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

    France, Aug. 29, 1918 Dear Mother: Just have time for a short note today. Have just completed ... shell. I hope you get it all right. Sorry I did not yet it cleaned up but it is hard to get the time and ... rather nice to have over here at times and a good thing with which to jog one's memory for ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:53am

  2. Letter from Row, Sydney Arthur

    Christmas I expect. We all expect to have a roaring time and I hope they are fulfilled. There is only one ... wish and that is to be home. I expect this will reach you about that time. I have just written to Mrs. ... time. I do hope Bessie makes good at the exam, also that Philip is keeping at school regularly. I wish ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:57am

  3. Letter from Moyer, Jay Batiste

    he will have to have them sooner or later and might just as well have them now as some other time ... all. Your box of cookies just came at the right time when I was very hungry and had no money to buy ... It is very interesting and the time goes quickly. I have a new bunk again and it is so narrow ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:02am

  4. Letter from Lakefield College School Collection

    a parcel lost from Canada for me. Some of them have been an awfully long time on the road, but they have ... I am afraid it has been an anxious time for you all too- Ken being in Halifax. I have heard that he was ... injured, but have no particulars. I do hope it wasn't serious. I wrote to you a long time ago, but had ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:12pm

  5. Letter from Fitzgerald, John Ernest

    it? or dident you have time to look her up? oh well it doesn't matter, as long as you had a good ... time, maby the next time you have leave you will find time to look her up. By the way have you seen Gene ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:59pm

  6. Letter from Johns, Lawrence Earl

    little ones (lice)don't bother me for a little while. We are having a good time and lots to eat We ... paid for some time I gave him 5 Francs untill he gets paid as one cannot have a good time with out ... another as its one you sent at Xmas time I gave Jackson a towel and cake of soap when I saw him he also ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:06pm

  7. Letter from Thornton, Gordon Stanley

    of the big guns and reach of gas. Aeroplanes & Balloons up all the time. And a peculiar smell ... like a drug store in the air all the time. Just at present we are so new at this place & so ... away. We expect to be in the firing line in a very short time and we are so busy getting settled then ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:46am

  8. Letter from Skeet, Frank

    everything is going fine with me out here, Mother, and having a nice time of it at present. "Getting up ... rides than ever now, eh? So you will be able to tell me more about it next time I would imagine ... them if I had their address before. But I had a busy time as it was, don't you think? I guess ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 4:57pm

  9. Letter from Skeet, Frank

    France, November 16th Dear Mother- By the time you get this I think it will be Xmas again, so ... just have to have as good a time as I can with the CEF in Somewhere and think of the time we'll ... (here). About umpteen (are) talking at once, so I'll find a quieter spot next (time). Army WWI North ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 5:06pm

  10. Letter from MacKinnon, Ronald

    a letter from you for some time but I suppose you have been very busy threshing. Well I am leaving for the ... for the last week and we expect to leave at any time but we will have a lot of training to do in ... France before we go near "the line". I had my equipment on today, the first time I've done ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 12:45pm