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1. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   a bit of time each day cleaning and dressing it, however, Bert Haywards hot castor oil treatment is just ... Bill is very restless, and had to keep on the go all the time, it is his nature anyway, but it is worse ... the thing, apparently, as it has been draining nicely, and shrinking in size, and less painful, each ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:51am

2. Letter from Robertson, Charles Eric

   surprise and the remarks that each one of you would make when you heard the news of my marriage, and ... see that there wasn’t an enormous amount of time lost) I took Molly to this hotel which is a quiet ... sun decided to shine for a few hours at about that time. We only get a glimpse of the sun about once ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

3. Memoir from Mercer, Richard William

   mortars started to whine their way down on our position. We tried to duck each time we heard the whine but ... chemotherapy treatments but was now dying of leukemia. At the time Randy wanted to complete a high school ... 1971. At this time Granddad Mercer's handwriting was failing; most likely the after effects of the ...

   Editor - Dec 2 2021 - 10:33am

4. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

   overnight, just to see what goes on during a blitz, and each time it has been very quiet. I left early next ... May 4, 1941 Well, here I am again after a week’s leave (8 days). I had a very good time and ... usual, it was very quiet. I say “as usual,” because this is the third time I have stayed in London ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

5. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   time I am home. I mailed your Xmas parcels home last weekend, but I am still wondering what to get for ... simply mobbed the minute they step off the train! It is nearly the same downtown here except that each ... a time they had for a week! I was down there several times during that hectic week and many an amusing ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:16pm

6. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   off before tea time or bust. It is certainly beginning to look like Xmas in this room. The Winnipeg ... from being an Indian. I think it will take me a long time to thank them all. I hope we don't have ... I used to watch its progress each day as I went in and out from my meals. I hope Em will like it. I also ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:28pm

7. Letter from Reid, Donald Calderwood

   hasn't had patients for some time on account of getting ready to move and twelve of us are at No.1 [?] We ... actual work is nicer than in the day time as you come just as you please, no one to try to boss you, but ... it's the sleeping in the daytime that I don't like. We have only a month at a time through so ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:55pm

8. Letter from Reid, Daniel Spencer

   hasn't had patients for some time on account of getting ready to move and twelve of us are at No.1 [?] We ... actual work is nicer than in the day time as you come just as you please, no one to try to boss you, but ... it's the sleeping in the daytime that I don't like. We have only a month at a time through so ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 5:02pm

9. Letter from Law, John William

   I suppose added to that the living conditions brought about by war time with its worry and so forth has been ... too much this time. For myself I am staying a few days for I think I am not such an awful drag on them ... to see everybody this time. When I came away from camp everything was going on much the same, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Feb 11 2023 - 12:23pm

10. Letter from Nanaimo Daily Free Press

    home. "I have been a long time writing again, as usual, but out here no one seems to think about ... I was soon sent off with the rest of the wing in time to join in one of the first raids. Several boys ... were lost, but I had luck and got back all right. Then we had to go on several more raids, each one ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 5:30am