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1. Letter from McNeill, John

   you last we have been standing under arms day & night & twice have been marched down to the ... boat to cross to France, but this time it is absolutely certain that we get away, the only thing this ... must have got to Vernon by this time.             Since I started this letter I have been taken from it ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm

2. Letter from Evans, Charles Dawson

   I hear we are to go the front some time in the early part of December.  I have just got your letter.  No ... and Sunday.  I had a deuce of a time.  But say, keep the business going, because I will be back ... a-- of a good time, were all over town.  The other two lads came in broke.  They had been rolled and ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

3. Diary from Whyte, James Claude

   day at the hospital & I never laughed so much for a long time We got back at 9.PM. Tuesday, June ... march around by & through Hythe untill 5.P.M. The weather was very hot. In the evening there was ... account of our hard work last evening. & went on a route march to salt wood castle & Hythe. After ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:34pm

4. Letter from McNaughton, John Leslie

   whether I told you or not but Gordon (?) me some time ago. It was real good and I must get him to repeat ... said they had a good time and I am sure they had. Jessie did you get a Xmas card and a picture which ... I sent you some time in January- about the 12th or 13th of the month I think. The picture was one of us ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:49pm

5. Diary from Smith, Arnold

   – 19, 1917 Take train. 4 days march. Arrived near Cassel on 16th. Billets at farm near village. Time ... Maisnil-Bouché to exchange helmets. At movies in evening.   Jan 17, 18, 19, 1917 Weather quite cold. Spent time ... mail in.   Jan 24 – Mar 31, 1917 Spent time in same sector. Last trip 28 days in line. Artillery more ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

6. Letter from Richardson, Charles Douglas

   4th Univ. Co. P.P.C.L.I. St. Martin's Plain Shorncliffe March 3, ‘16 Dear Edna: Again, I have ... March 1st- the next day. I am still in quarantine and am risking it again, for I like to write to you, ... through it. Although we are quarantined we are having a very good time. We get up just in time for ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:45am

7. Letter from Nanaimo Daily Free Press

   and to reach the trenches we had to march that distance, the last two miles being under fire. When we ... arrived at a ruined (by shell fire) village we had to stop smoking and the remainder of the march was ... have been there several times still laugh at the new fellow who buries his nose in the mud or flops ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 5:26am

8. Letter from Gray, Robert Hampton

   I was so glad to hear that my wire arrived on Christmas eve. That was the best time wasn’t it. By the ... in times like these when business is so disrupted. I hate to think of what the Christmas business of ... a week ago so he will have heard from me by now. For the first time in my life I am doing all my own ...

   Editor - Jul 13 2022 - 8:51am

9. Letter from Garton, Thomas

   time and didn’t know it. for here we have to work about twice as hard. we have to get up at five ... when we are at it we never get time to stand half a minute but I like drilling here for everything is ... different over here so one does not tire of the work so quickly. we were out for a route march yesterday we ...

   Editor - Jul 8 2023 - 10:02am

10. Diary from Dawkins, Arnold F.A.

    march packs some of them are carrying. We start off at a good time, but we were not on the road half and ... heard in a long time is that Dusseldorf and Cologne have fallen to the Allies. If we keep marching we ... 16 men. It was a hard march up to and through Michlhausen before a noon time rest. The Yank POW’s are ...

    Editor - Apr 20 2022 - 3:47pm