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1. Letter from Charman, Frances

   MARCH 12, 1944 Dear Bernice: Sunday afternoon and a beautiful day. I had the morning off along ... this plane trip at a time. Three times a week it ran. Never had been in a plane before. Only ... fifty-eight miles, and I had been to the main town several times before. It was the plane trip of 35 minutes ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:35pm

2. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

   a chance that this letter may also be in time, to supplement my good wishes. I see that the day will be ... also with good hope to other good times when peace is with us again. I am without letter from you or ... it public. I have still to recount my Sunday doings. Church parade was at 9.30 which meant a march ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 5:07am

3. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

   England, 6 March 44 Dear Jean: I've noticed for some little time now that your letters have ... home for our selves. Glad the bits of money are coming through in reasonable time I may be able to get ... another £30 off to you this week. Now is the time to salt down what we can, because no doubt there will ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 2:59am

4. Letter from Davies, Eunice Frances

   (innoculations) and drilling and marching. We have to get up at 6.30 each morning, 7.30 on Sunday. I got my ... scheduled, sometimes our arm are very sore from them and sometimes they don’t effect us at all. About 3 times ... really packed with girls over 400 all the time. Dad writes often, he seems to be getting along well, it ...

   Editor - May 2 2023 - 11:13am

5. Letter from Gray, Robert Hampton

   “ March 1942”] Dear Mother and Dad, We are now getting fairly near to our destination after a quite long ... don’t go too long a time without letters and probably by now you are wondering a bit what is happening, ... suffer in war time. When anything happens to us it happens quickly but the parents and wives must suffer ...

   Editor - Jul 13 2022 - 2:16pm

6. Letter from Bell, William Robert

   Aylmer March 1941 Dear Mum: Suppose a letter now and then never comes amiss. I have a good chance ... them away all the time, so now they have to carry them all the time. It's just a case of a few ... discipline. The course is getting better all the time and I am certainly learning more about aeroplanes that ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:10pm

7. Letter from Donnelly, William Herbert

   marched 17 mils. up and down hills. The first reinforcing draft of the 88th from Victoria B.C. were behind ... have put us all down and out. I was just thinking at the time that if an auto had run against our rear, ... I enlisted) breakfasted at 7:30 and about 1500 men (many battalions from all over Canada being here) marched ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

8. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

   I thought that I shouldn't have time to write this letter in time for the post, so I dropped a line to ... which may be apparent later, will make all difference to me. The Battalion went for a route march ... long so I had plenty of time in which to do a few odd jobs for myself. I wrote a few letters in the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:20pm

9. Letter from McLean, David

   the news. I may say I have about $55. to my credit in my pay book at the end of March so you will know ... first time and two the second time. I wish I was home to get a ride in Alex's auto but we hope it ... E. Freeman some time ago. R. McLeod is in hospital just now with blood poisoning in his foot but he ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:11pm

10. Letter from Cobourg World

    Captain A. S. Morrison writes Sergt. Gormley as follows: My Dear Friend: At this time of the year ... ones thoughts wander back to bygone scenes and days. At the present time I have in my mind's eye ... spared to come back so that we can have a grand reunion and also one of those good times for which the ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:23pm