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  1. Letter from Bennett, James Howard

    that our ship was sunk. We heard it three times. We heard it once when we were in mid ocean and twice ... about 1 a.m. Sunday. This is a pretty good camp here we have huts to live instedd (sic) of tents. Each ... heater in each one. We have boards raised about a foot of the floor with straw tick on it for beds, and ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:05pm

  2. Letter from Trotter, Bernard Freeman

    has seen some pretty lively times, and is likely to do so again. Trench repairing and consolidating ... everything is hearsay. And now of all things I am ordered off to a course- for a week. You see each brigade ... I shall have a very tolerable time. The officers I have seen so far are quite agreeable chaps. In billets ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:18pm

  3. Letter from Davey, John (Jack)

    first opportunity now that I know what you want. Glad to hear that you had such a good time at the 5th ... invitation to the recreation club dances & that you will have lots of good times at them also at the ... on the mud on Salisbury Plain. Please excuse pencil this time, but my pen is dry & I left my ink ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:24am

  4. Letter from Thornton, Gordon Stanley

    a good time together telling each other lies about what we had each seen and places where we had been. He ... have been on the move for a few days but have settled down for a short time well away from the front ... a massage and he came over at noon today. We had a short time together and I went over again tonight. We had ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:57am

  5. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    better than usual, so I took a bit of time off. Spent yesterday afternoon "gardening" at ... the war. Wish we could afford to spend three months in southern Calif each winter. There is still no ... put the clocks back an hour last night, so were back to winter time once more. The "double" ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 12:20am

  6. Letter from Nanaimo Daily Free Press

    about one hundred and fifty yards from ours, although at places they were only thirty yards from each ... have been there several times still laugh at the new fellow who buries his nose in the mud or flops ... into a big "Jack Johnson" hole full of water every time a flare goes up, because we ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 5:26am

  7. Diary from Stewart, David Morrison

    boys singing. Sang Red River Valley. Trooper Anderson helped me. Rec'd # 5 each. Army Pre-1914 ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:45am

  8. Letter from Richardson, Charles Douglas

    You have probably forgotten all about this guy by this time since it about a month since you heard ... live in England though. Everyone seems about 100 yrs behind the times. Little shops, hardly big enough ... others talking or reading, and some like myself writing. There are 40 men in each hut. They are ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:08pm

  9. Diary from Newton, John

    contests in the afternoon. Motored each way. Tuesday March 6, 1917 Beautiful morning but cold in the ... Collard in the P.M. Raining heavily all the time. On our return were notified that the 82nd and 83rd ... 15, 1917 Cloudy. Had a full mounted parade this afternoon to see that each man knew his position. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:58am

  10. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

    a rifle inspection this morning I have had little or nothing to do, so spent the time resting. Best of all ... I have met Colin again and you can guess how jolly pleased we were to get together again and tell each ... other the news. Stu seems to have had a fairly quiet time in the line while I have been at the ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:22pm