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  1. Diary from Littler, Harold Hartley

    Company) being sent to South Ceasar Camp near Folkestone where we had a very nice time. Went on my first ... time we arrived at Camp [.....ear?] Albert on the Somme. After a day or two of rest we went up at night ... time on a working party around Courcelette and Souchez near the sugar refinery which was all in ruins. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:13am

  2. Letter from Brown, Robert Gordon

    what I was doing on Tuesday. Then when mail-time came on Tuesday, your second letter did not come as ... mail-time. However, the time did pass and, as you said, I was greatly relieved when I found you were not ... arm as you had the other time. Is your arm very sore? How I do wish I could see you! Gordon, there is ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 1:51am

  3. Letter from Broome, Ronald Francis

    some more mail in. It sure didn't take long for our mail to follow us this time as it is only ... time I was writing again. I started to write a letter last night while I was on guard duty but ... smokes in. It is just about time I was getting some but it doesn't matter as long as some of the ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 12:05am

  4. Letter from Irwin, Harold Lawrence

    every time we wont money we just take it in & drown if there is any thing coming to use, and every ... time I have taken mine in there was money, and I thaught it funny, for I was thinking all the time ... I went to see about it that time and I found that your money had not gone to you at all as my pappers had ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

  5. Letter from Strang, John Caldwell

    minded being there just about the time lunch or supper was on. I think likely you would have noticed ... had he as usual been just a trifle behind when starting time came? Any way the horses wouldn't ... a Canadian bann-barn stable. They say it is unusual weather to stay cold so long in France at a time. I think ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

  6. Letter from Platt, Henry Errol Beauchamp

    and at the same time gind opportunity to be properly sick once every night while in trenches. The only ... time I wasn’t one or the other for the last ten days was because I was so scared to death that ... have appreciated the work you have been doing, but at the same time it may be of great value to you at ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

  7. Letter from Ramsey, Edward Cresswell

    in the best of spirits, they have had no zepp raids for a long time, and they do not expect any more. ... we had a great time together. But I had the best time when I went to see Queenie, lord but she is ... time, you see last time her Uncle was away, but now he is at home, therefore his sweet wife went with ...

    Editor - Nov 23 2021 - 6:01am

  8. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

    and between this time and 11.30 I had a good clean up. This was the time for our N.C. service which ... afternoon I made myself comfortable in Stuart's billet and wrote some letters and had a lazy time ... attended. I walked back to the house where the padre was billeted and for the first time learned his name. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Nov 20 2023 - 11:02am

  9. Carry On: Letters in War-Time

    Carry On:  Letters in War-Time, written by Coningsby William Dawson. Lieutenant Coningsby William ... September, he was wounded several times during the war before being demobilized in June 1919. The Dawson ... letters were originally published together as the book Carry On:  Letters in War-Time in 1917. Now in the ...

    Editor - Mar 10 2024 - 2:08pm

  10. Letter from Mercer, Richard William

    certainly good too. You can tell her next time you see her although I am writing her as soon as I have time ... spent its time in training and in a stage of preparedness. One of the most tedious jobs for members of ... about this at the time. [199] Pte. Richard Mercer is at Verdrel near Vimy Ridge. The reference to being ...

    Editor - Nov 30 2021 - 11:11am