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1. Letter from Carry On: Letters in War-Time

   sleeping in a new dug-out and get a shower of mould on my sleeping-kit each time the guns are fired. One ... next. What a lot of love you each one manage to put into your written pages! I'm afraid if I let ... On: Letters in War-Time "M" Coningsby Dawson no 0 ...

   Editor - Jul 30 2022 - 4:47pm

2. Letter from Flett, Walter Earnest Peter

   on action service to East Africa & France. I hope Glad is all OK by this time. She must have had ... a tough time of it. Wish you could see the cabins we have- 6' x 6' just room to turn around ... & soft coal fires at each end of the halls to keep hot water. The banging that goes on would wake ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:08pm

3. Letter from Forbes, Donald M.

   pencil and you mentioned having sent without stamps. It had been a long time coming- quite three weeks. ... where you are). I do not see how you keep up. I think of you all the time and wish the dreadful war was ... commenced the bridge. All is very quiet here nothing of any consequence has happened for a long time. We ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:19pm

4. Letter from Broome, George Albert Charles

   121 Brookmill Rd St John's S.E. 8 London 7/7/17 My Dear Milly You will think I am a long time ... married her Home is at same Hotel in Somerset I forget the name of it Sam told me about the time or soon ... 1/8 a lb eggs 3c each and butter we cannot look at about 2 a lb now it has been more cheese 1/6 a lb ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:33pm

5. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

   give. We have been pretty busy the last few days and will not have much free time from now on, for each ... I get time. So far this month has been cold and rainy but it is finer today and I hope that we are going ... to have it finer from now on. Don't think I have any more news this time so will ring off and ...

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

6. Letter from Gray, Charles and Walter

   one day that was the most she could do we had a few exiting times the last two or three day we had ... lifebelts with us everywhere so you can bet we had to laugh at each other when we went down to our meals but ... dinner time that missed us saturday night they kept with us till we reached plymouth got the about ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:10pm

7. Letter from Butler, Karl Vincent

   Feb 21/40 Dear Tick:- I wrote to you some time ago but I don't know whether u received it or ... their barracks mess room and recreation hut. I would send a detailed description of each snap. I think ... time on my hands. If your boss is interested tell him to drop me a line but wait until you get my next ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:08pm

8. Letter from Callcott, Clifford

   out with Cousin Claude, that’s Hughes’s Son, just at night of course, but we sure had a good time ... didn’t hit on any of them, but we had a lot of fun and it was the first time I had been to the dogs, and ... a cold from them, it seems every time I get a cold after needles, it must be the reaction, or else they ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Nov 26 2021 - 3:57pm

9. Letter from Robus, Walter Thomas

   were in the trenches at “Plugstreet” known over here in normal times as Ploegsteert.  While there we ... bullets just going between us.  Jumping up, I threw a bomb (each of us being armed with two bombs & ... but we manage to have quite a large amount of fun between times.  At present we are out having a rest ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:06pm

10. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

    especially now at harvest time. The work is not hard and the hours are short so I have no kick coming. We ... I will drop them a line today if I get time. I am keeping up correspondence with one or two Canadian boys ... here so I write several letters each week. Some nights I am out with the car so do not get a chance to ...

    Editor - Feb 7 2022 - 1:32pm