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1. Letter from New Liskeard Speaker

   March 17th I would write you oftener but have so little time, and I am interrupted so often. You have ... homes and under my supervision. The system and routine of accounting for each officer, non-commissioned ... space of time entirely my own. I have 60 men at one place, 40 at another, and 100 at another. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:53pm

2. Letter from Bridges, Jeannette "Nettie" Drysdale

   course I will write to them all in time but I want you to speak about it too. [?] sent a big 5 lb box of ... us. Lieut. Jemmett sent us each one of his regimental badges made into a pin.  He is in the Canadian ... he and his sister taking us out in London. Lieut Ings sent us each cards. Kip sent me a beautiful ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

3. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

   quiet up there, and the fact that "B" Coy has had no casualties during the whole of the time ... office because I am not letting mother know I am in the trenches this time, leaving it entirely to you to ... do so if you think fit. In all probability I shall be back here again by the time you get this- so ...

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

4. Diary from Stewart, Walter F.

   the cooks at each meal being able to seat only about 60 at the tables at a time. I slept in a big ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:51am

5. Letter from Davis, William Worth

   so it is a good time to write you  First, there are a couple of things, I have been going to mention ... for some time, but believe I have forgotten. One is diary pages, and I am completely out of them, ... off a bunch to-night & get a penny each for them, which just a little more than pays me. I am ...

   Editor - Mar 16 2023 - 11:55am

6. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   Midlands, farther west and north. It might have been these hard times which stimulated John A to emigrate in ... respectively, but I didn't take time to find the connection [?] these who came later, no doubt they were ... "golden age" of East Anglia, (the name applied to Suffolk and Norfolk). Hard times came to the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 1:20am

7. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   all round as the days go by. We are billeted in a school, have two blankets — quite ample — each, and ... more room after each change, and the weather is lovely. Boulogne, on looking back on it, seems more of ... trip, I don’t think I ever heard the war mentioned. There was a poker game at each end of the box car ...

   Editor - Mar 7 2022 - 2:58pm

8. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

   Artists only eligible) Hesitated for a time- it would of course be a "cushier" & much safer ... 22 a long time since I had one in such a short time. You had been having a quieter time- Edith & ... divided in Armies- 1st, 2nd, Third Army etc, each holding a certain part of the Battle line- Besides these ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:28am

9. Letter from Cox, Bertram Howard

   hard to write at this table as the boys are all kidding each other about when they get wounded and ... and it is certainly the best time of the year to be going to France. I have been expecting Norman here ... 24th, when I got a 2 day pass and had an awfully good time. Is there any 1st class cricket being played ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Nov 16 2021 - 2:21pm

10. Letter from New Liskeard Speaker

    this time. The air and weather are certainly fine here. I like the country but do not care much for the ... is nothing like the exhibition, we are living in long wooden huts, thirty men in each. Each man has ... there Thursday morning. He was delighted. I only saw him four times. He was staying at Shorncliffe Camp. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:55pm