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1. Letter from Harber, T. Lloyd

   England. I received a letter from each of you yesterday and was very glad to get them. I showed the Zombie ... wounded and came overseas at the same time as I did. One of the fellows is going back to Canada any day so ... treated us extra good as we had been stationed there for quite some time before going to France. We walked ...

   Editor - Oct 31 2023 - 3:05pm

2. Letter from Duffield, Lloyd Quintus

   linen as well as the Doctors and Sisters. There are 20 wards each ward containing 53 beds so that over ... 1000 patients may be attended to at a time. And I understand that the order is out for 20 more wards to ... be completed by April 1917. Each ward is now decorated with Holly wreaths and trimmings and some of ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

3. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

   just like ordinary grey machines till you get close. Then you see each is mounted with a high-angle ... clouds of dust, each machine with Canada painted on its grey side and a couple of Canucks, who have no ... There is nothing I suppose for me to tell you about the war. You know all the news at the same time as ...

   Editor - Mar 2 2022 - 4:00pm

4. Diary from Dawkins, Arnold F.A.

   Back to the billet in time for brew, lately we have been having a coffee brew. Each combine contributes ... time. The chains are issued each day, but nobody is wearing them as there are not enough German guards ... cattle. The cattle are tied in groups of 6 to 8 & each group is attended by a man or woman. Several ...

   Editor - Apr 20 2022 - 3:45pm

5. Letter from Gordon, Alexander MacLennan

   time since we came to France, Huntly and I are billeted in the same town-railhead for the time being. ... The time will probably be short, for we are a long way back of the firing line, and we expect the ... have service with each of the four battalions, and I take the smaller, attached units – ambulance, ...

   Editor - Jan 3 2024 - 8:06am

6. Diary from Stewart, David Morrison

   12th Going through Eng. Channel. See a great many ships on each side. Breakfast: Porridge & ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:45am

7. Diary from Stewart, David Morrison

   shore. Cap't paid us a pound each. Ottawa Sparks very sick. Major stopped the fatigue party. Colin ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:49am

8. Diary from Stewart, Walter F.

   "Northwest", we had the Queen's Own with us. Two regiments on each boat and there were four boats. Grand ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:00am

9. Letter from Ball, Herbert Franklin

   nearly all the time until two or three days ago. The weather was fine when we left Edmonton but we found ... and pulled into Halifax about noon time on the 7th of April. When we left the train down by the wharf, ... each side of the pier and all along the wharf. The second floor of the building was fitted up for ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:09pm

10. Letter from McNeill, John

    each other & how long a time it will be before we see each other again, let us pray God that the ... I think they must have known that they were being taken for daddy, every time I look at the photo, a lump ... time will not be long. I have had a very hard week of it, besides having to give instruction in bayonet ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm