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  1. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    my Section up here for the time being, as most of my business is up this way. It seems funny to be ... from the Forest Service have come, and before, they used to come each month without fail. Think the ... some money off to Leila last week, but have not had time. Will try to get it away next week. One thing ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:21am

  2. Letter from Davis, William Worth

    I wrote irregularly while away, just when I had time. Found plenty of letters and papers on my return also ... Hope you had a good time tho. The holiday will do you good. Business surely keeps up well. I am most ... address, I will write her occasionally. We sure had some time in Ireland & it is some place all right. ...

    Editor - Mar 16 2023 - 12:16pm

  3. Letter from Gullen, William Roy

    i n have a large boil on my neck [havett?] had a n y sleep while in this time between carreeing sixty lb ... things and boil my shoulders is very lam it seems to take along time coming to a head, we came very fast ... get one in, we have never been over the top that is the time that gets you no use saying may come out ...

    Editor - Sep 2 2024 - 12:22pm

  4. Letter from Dickson, William Haslam

    battle every day and they become very excitable and they come in close proximity of each other some time ... for the Mowser rifle the Spanish are equipped with they have a magazine gun that will shoot 7 times ... after fighting all day and they thought each other the enemy and started battle it was in the dusk of ...

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

  5. Letter from McArthur, John Alexander

    Mytchett Nov 26/16 Dear Hazel- This is Sunday evening and my usual time for writing to you. ... The signallers have made an agreement that once each year we will meet and have a banquet in London- ... Farnborough yesterday. It is quite a nice place and we had a dandy time. They are all R.F.C. men there as they ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:47pm

  6. Letter from McNeill, John

    I have been kept going all week, you would understand that I did not have much time, I have to attend ... three lectures every day each one takes an hour, so that what with drills & lectures I get so tired ... send you as much as I can. I have had quite a time, signing papers this week for the Patriotic Fund ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

  7. Letter from Shortreed, Robert

    them all to you with this letter and you should also receive some more about the same time. Let me know ... a change. We each got a bonus of ten francs out of the canteen profits and it goes a little way to get a few ... present time. One of our boys left this week for a cadet course. He has been waiting about nine months and ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:32am

  8. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    people who sent me parcels at Xmas, including Horace Ryan. I simply haven't time to write each an ... as I rather naively thought it might at one time. After the war, I can use them out in the woods, if ... a ragamuffin. The new one should last me a long time, as I will have the old one patched up for ordinary ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 1:22am

  9. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

    here in England at the time of writing has a lot to do with the acceptance of my work. I think when ... each trip 5 to 10 men go from the battalion? Each trip takes four months also? At that rate how long do ... parting again. Do you honestly think you would enjoy having me home for a month if at the end of that time ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:55pm

  10. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

    a short time. As you know we are in Manchester, and Manchester is called the ‘Black City' and now ... bowed legs, staring eyes and white dirt-streaked faces, I am physically sick nearly every time I walk ... could live in such places or in such conditions. Mile after mile of red brick houses- each drearily like ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:05pm