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1. Letter from Bridges, Jeannette "Nettie" Drysdale

   a nice time and that night Crocket & I had dinner at the Piccadilly with Keiller Mackay & a Capt. ... a bit of Eva & Daphne. We generally run down to their boarding place every time we are off duty. ... this letter will get finished this time. A Canadian mail came in to-day and I was so glad to get your ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

2. Letter from Stubbs, Robin Anthony

   was an unusual case though. I had a good trip down this time as I got a sleeper. I went immediately to ... and breakfast and I have to be more economical this time after the previous ten days leave and the ... Alan Mackenzie. It was a magnificent house at one time. I have never seen anything like the carved ...

   Editor - May 30 2023 - 8:34am

3. Letter from Day, Thomas Bertrand

   three squadrons of 4 troops each on parade at one time. allowing 35 for each troop we have about 450 men ... read my letters to the Times and Sun. But say we are having the most exciting time these days I have ... one line being about 30 yards behind the others. Each line contains a troop and there are generally ...

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

4. Letter from Cobourg World

   like hail. We were going overland at the time so had to make for the nearest trench we could find. The ... each other, After a while he let up and we got back to our lines again. This happened after the ... yards from us, and then when one came about twenty feet away we thought it was about time to move and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:55pm

5. Letter from Scherer, George Leslie

   Please accept my thanks. Your mother was wondering if Lawrence Vannen & I saw each other very often. ... together & out of the line for some time. Can you beat it? We've been having grand weather of ... late: the last few days have been just like summer. Gee! How the time does fly! But I haven't seen ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:36pm

6. Letter from Fargey, James Henderson

   are. Canadian mail only goes from England on Tuesday and Friday of each week. We havn't been ... expecting to get our leave the end of this week. They are giving a hundred leave at a time and Arthur wants ... on the hands. We certainly get good meals here but we are out most if the time and we feel hungry/ ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:11am

7. Letter from McAdam, James Douglas

   some patriotic league gave each man a bag containing a pair of socks, hankerchief, gum and a pair of ... each man their presents for New Year's and as we have also been promised mail for that day, I see ... 5 week's mail has turned back owing to broken machinery. This is the second time the boat has turned back ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 8:33am

8. Diary from Briggs, Tillman Alfred

   Corps, is here of Victoria. Feb 11, 1919 Went to a dance. Met several War Widows & had a good time ... a good time. One of the widows has taken quite a fancy to me. I see where things are going to get quite ... the Royal Crown Derby Works. We saw the beginning to the finish of making china. Each article, plate, ...

   Editor - Apr 1 2022 - 6:16am

9. Letter from Mowat, Grant Davidson

   present time I weigh 176 or a trifle better in my uniform, of course without the great coat. And people ... appropriately called “belly wash,” and the dessert is infinitesimal. However an hours hard drill before each ... our time out in the country on one scheme or another, and in this way saw quite a bit of England. ...

   Editor - Oct 5 2023 - 9:31am

10. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

    but have a good time. We came back the night before last to a little town behind the line where we are ... is the front line of battle where the manhood of nations grapple with each other to the death for the ... some of the greatest battles of all time have been fought. As I write, in the distance I can hear, in ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:40am