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1. Letter from Gray, Charles and Walter

   here roast beef for dinner and eggs for breakfast. We get lots of time off to go down to Folkstone ... We are getting hard training here out marching every afternoon for 12 or 16 miles & up the worst ... can write this time so I will close this Short letter with kindest love From Your Loving Sons Wally ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:23pm

2. Letter from Robertson, John Hill

   on May 22. I received it to day at noon. Seeing it it Sunday I have a little time to spare so ... a march I didn't get a chance to open them till I was back fixing up my bed. It rained nearly all the ... time so I was afraid to open them and then not be able to read them. It certainly is good to get your ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 5:36pm

3. Letter from MacKinnon, Ronald

   Archie today; it was written May 14, 1916. He is well and seems to be having a good time considering. He ... physical drill all morning. In the afternoon we go for a route march, so you can see we have a pretty easy ... time. We are only five miles from Folkestone, three miles from Shorncliffe, two miles from the Channel, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 12:43pm

4. Letter from Drader, Eugene Robert

   the way times fly here.  Have put our class of 30 through already and started on the second class this ... or even from home for a long time.  I guess it’s my own fault—you are very busy and worried too ... Your loving son Eugene   Army WWI North America Canada Letter 1916 March 27th Drader, Eugene Robert ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 3:06pm

5. Letter from Sproule, Joseph Goulding

   as fast as they march away from the trenches, so his spirits rise, and by the time he arrives and ... funny walking over ground that was German ground a short time ago & looking over the ridge & ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

6. Letter from Stubbs, Robin Anthony

   Dick was down here last weekend. It was the first time I haven’t had to parade Sun. morning so we ... presumably won’t for some time. Part of their job is to climb a 250 foot radio tower to clean the insulators. ... parades now. Yesterday thirteen of us formed up as a flight and marched away from the school passed the ...

   Editor - Jun 8 2023 - 11:20am

7. Letter from Duncan, Robert James

   passed it around as far as it would go. All the lucky ones voted for it to be a daily issue. Time marches ... trouble for a week or so finding time to get a few lines away to you but things are going better now so ...

   Editor - Nov 1 2023 - 12:08pm

8. Letter from Corker, Arthur Donovan

   frontier in December, 1916, so previous experience helped us considerably. In March 1917 one of our bunch ... talking over old times & home feeding. I suppose cherries will be over by the time you get this. ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Mar 9 2024 - 5:22pm

9. Letter from Gullen, William Roy

   ever, there must have been hard feelings over the coal question Stan and Jack are having a good time ... not say if she had [a?] cold this time I hope not well bye bye with wishing I could walk in and lots ... of kisses and love Yours dad Roy Army WWI Europe France Letter from soldier 1917 March 25th Gullen, ...

   Editor - Sep 2 2024 - 3:44pm

10. Letter from Mercer, Richard William

    Battle of Passchendaele. [125] “The order of March and times of departure to Passchendaele began at 7:00 ... not had a letter from you for some time. We drove up from France on our motor cycles [125]  and we had ... some time too. My cycle [126]  broke down two miles outside of this camp and we were held up for four ...

    Editor - Nov 30 2021 - 11:05am