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1. Letter from Johnston, William Joseph

   Brooches (each) 3 " Rings (each 1 " Am sending the prices in case you have trouble with customs. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 6:26pm

2. Letter from Morrisette, Gordon J.

   last time before we go across. We expect to pull out some time during the coming week as we have ... with us. They are dandys. Each one reminds one of a prehistoric dinosaur. They appear to be such ... Each day we parade only to be dismissed as our training is finished. We are in Woolwich vicinity about ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:19pm

3. Letter from Fargey, James Henderson

   I'm in the hospital at the present time with Influenza- as they call it here., but it is really just ... scare mother altho we are not very sick. Each of us the the wards got a stocking at the foot your bed ... Ontario and each of us got a pair of gloves from the Red Cross Society. The lads were up last night and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:18am

4. Memoir from Forman, Joseph (Jo)

   speed and direction. I would press knobs on each machine (to lock the results) and note the time. By ... each group claiming to be the real one. Zig-Zag routes were often used to make Jerry radar think the ... #12 Sqn. Hence, on each op we would put 30-35 aircraft in the air, and if we had a bad night, 4-5 ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:36pm

5. Letter from Platt, Henry Errol Beauchamp

   stipend perhaps – but each time with you was worth a dozen. That night do you remember, sometime last ... Canadian bayonets flashed in the Royal Salute. Afterwards there was a march past, each Battalion swinging ... the attack, wave after wave, to dash itself vainly against our lines. As soon as each Battalion passed ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

6. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

   haywire at this time, but I imagine you can get a very serviceable Eaton machine at little expense. Next ... time you see Toutle, thank her for me and tell her we all appreciate the greeting cards, which she has ... expense of the room. Last night I was dumped out of bed four times and didn’t mind much, as I paid in kind ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

7. Letter from Mowat, Wilhelmina

   were getting settled there is more time for letters. Moore Barracks Hospital is the Canadian base ... Miss Russel of Hamilton our matron. Each hut has beds for forty patients; we had about seventy nurses ... any time – as abiding places are of short duration in the army. There is much I have to tell you – but ...

   Editor - Oct 12 2023 - 11:12am

8. Letter from Gullen, William Roy

   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX P.S. Will write a little to you each next time kids dad Army WWI Europe Great Britain Letter from ... goats can hardly live I am not like mother like to be gossiping a lot of the time, I like room to bleath ... hear you feel as if you had a load on you all the time we have been back from the West 2½ years now and ...

   Editor - Aug 31 2024 - 1:56pm

9. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   been here doing nothing all the time or at least ‘nothing of any importance'. It is so frustrating ... to be so close to it all and yet, so very far away. And all the time you are being ordered around by ... from a different world, and are treated as such. And each corporal is out for himself entirely. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:09pm

10. Letter from Balfour, James Stevenson

    retired a bay each time one of those bombs got too close to us. I watched one of them throwing bombs till ... 11th. Luckily before going to the trenches this last time I wrote Mr. Reid to send me 50 francs in ... a time but he was killed. Major Galt was wounded close to us and was carried down the trench. We remained ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 1:39am