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  1. Letter from Blair, McCrea Parker, Jr.

    Army WWII North America Canada Letter from soldier 1940 March 15th Blair, McCrea Parker, Jr. ...

    Editor - May 23 2023 - 12:44pm

  2. Diary from Cunliffe, Herbert

    and played on the march to Houdain [missing pages] to Belgiun was done in motor lorries. we are not ... Cappelle at night. Nov 8th got orders to move off again at breakfast time, all packed up like mules and ... ready to go, marched 6 miles over potatoe fields on road to Castre a pretty fair sized town it was ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Nov 15 2023 - 1:02pm

  3. Letter from Hill, William Lowrie

    rifle, gas helmits, iron rations inspection, and shaves every morning followed by route marches in the ... day time. We are allowed a small fire in the reserves also to do a little cooking and it certainly ... time they had. Well you know the affect it has on us, but we have the misatisfaction ours is yet to ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Mar 9 2022 - 12:22pm

  4. Letter from Ball, Herbert Franklin

    camp which we reached about half past twelve that night. Then we had about a mile and a half to march ... I thought the world must have been flooded. There was nothing to do so we had all the time to ourselves. We ... were in Halifax about twelve days waiting for the boat and nearly every day we would parade or march ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 10:49am

  5. Letter from McNeill, John

    we are paid 3 times a month, I received two pays of 1000 Each & one of 800 & then there are ... gone out yet on the big route march, but it is likely to happen any day, I am ready for it & the ... they inoculate us three times to make sure that it takes effect, I got my photo taken in two positions, ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:10pm

  6. Letter from Gray, Robert Hampton

    R.H. Gray, S/Lt. Canada House, London. March 16. [annotation, origin unknown: “ 42”] Dear Mother ... he says his rallying power is quite good. I haven’t heard from you for some time now but that is the ... the time being so of course the only thing for me to do is to carry on doing whatever they give me to ...

    Editor - Jul 13 2022 - 1:13pm

  7. Letter from Cousins, Frank C.

    reading for a short time, we returned to our own billets. This morning we were to church in a little ... building here in the village. It was the first time I've been to church with guns blazing away on all ... glad to get your letter of March 4th yesterday. It was the first one of yours that has reached me for ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:32am

  8. Letter from Fargey, James Henderson

    is the weather in Manitoba? I guess at the present time you aren't having as good weather as we ... companies was saying, but is will be a nice country in times of peace. The French farmers have some find ... Ive had a bath yesterday and a change of under-wear. We get one every time you come out of the ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Mar 15 2022 - 6:26am

  9. Memoir from Green, Victor Arthur

    marching. Then about 2 munths we started to get unforms and Ross Rifals. Now we did duteys as Solders. Then ... through the Uplands. Wich at that time had only 4 homes in it. And the fields all around the Uplands we ... Girmon Ship the Emdin* got away and was finaley sunk near Australea. By this time we were well equipped. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 7:37am

  10. Diary from Wilson, Andrew

    Diary 1918 March 8th Wilson, Andrew no ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:17pm