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  1. Letter from Dennison, Gordon Joshua

    taken and now we are just trying to put in time. I didn't get a 24 hr week end this last week so ... held a picnic up in St Thomas and they marched us there. The sports day was a big thing but ... isn't it everything comes at the wrong time. I had a cob or two of corn last night one of the fellows ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:20am

  2. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

    Betty:- Still at Seaford, but I think we are moving next Sunday (March 4th) to Bramshot Camp Surrey, near ... to smile sometimes. By the time you receive this you will have your winter pretty well over & ... suppose I'll be home in time to get it in [?]. Mother will have had her operation [?] this, I hope ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 12:59pm

  3. Letter from Lakefield College School Collection

    and were in Germany until January 13th, 1919. We reached Cologne on December 13th, and then marched to ... a nice time in Germany, and in a way I was sorry to leave. While we were at Wahn, I went into Cologne ... there several times. Another officer and I stayed all night at the best hotel there, and it didn't ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:12pm

  4. Letter from Loney, Edward (Ted)

    April 12, 1943 Dear Mom: Well I guess it is time that I wrote you another letter. I don't ... started training. We each shot 3 times 5 rounds each time. There are 47 in our bunch. The first shoot was ... Personally I don't think that they would even make good scrap. Well we have a route march ahead of [us] ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:22pm

  5. Letter from Kaine, Alex James

    for me to stay in and help them for a time but I got out of it. You cannot imagine a battle but to ... give you a hint. We enter the communication trench and it takes 1 hr marching to reach the fire trench ... we take only what we are in (that is what is on us) and for our time in never even have our boots ...

    Editor - Sep 15 2022 - 3:17pm

  6. Letter from Gullen, William Roy

    done to day just a few yard s from me I hope and pray I can come through saf e by the time the next ... n we sleep back two or three and march up on every day on working parties but fritz got very bad. fired ... quite a few. your letters came very good time also Agnes yours was extra nice it is good to get them ...

    Editor - Sep 2 2024 - 8:31am

  7. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

    rather glad of that too because I think that this is not time to shirk a duty and England certainly needs ... train the officers             but I know better-----See! They march yuh eighteen miles by day ... battle’s won,             back home yuh march again. I don’t know who makes brass’ats,             or who ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Jan 1 2023 - 9:56am

  8. Diary from Wilson, Andrew

    of the First A? School. Army WWI Europe France Diary 1918 March 15th Wilson, Andrew no ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:19pm

  9. Diary from Brown, Robert Gordon

    a.m. Army WWI Europe Great Britain Diary 1917 March 20th Brown, Robert Gordon no ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 5:27pm

  10. Diary from Calder, William George

    28 Route March 29 Left for London at 6.30 tonight on a six day leave. Arrived there at 8 p.m. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:14pm