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1. Letter from Platt, Henry Errol Beauchamp

   3rd. Battalion Toronto Regiment. 1st Canadian Div. March 19/16. My dearest Mother: The mails ... yesterday and today, when Canadian letters between dates of February 19 and March 3 came in in a heap. So ... warm, but which we hope will be latent and ever increasing until such time as the bugle sounds the ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

2. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   time, when I get home perhaps. From our first billets we made a march of about 12 miles. I did not march ... all the way, as I did the first time. Just before we started I made friends with one of the drivers of ... that I should have my first ride in a London doubledeck omnibus in France and Belgium. All the time ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:26pm

3. Letter from Cobourg World

   at Valcartier when he played the National Anthem after the route march to St, Catherines. Fred ... got turned down because he had pleurisy one time and had a scar on his back where they operated on ... not. I would like to tell you about the other fellows but space and time will not permit. I wrote to ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:57pm

4. Letter from Beckton, Herbert Stanier

   are going: at present "jake"! (with the levas up.) I am at Netley Hospital for the time ... by way of Strazelle & Caestre: missing out Méteren this time. On April 15th, after all kinds of ... route marching etc., we moved on to Steendooire[?]. Next day we moved by Motor Bus to Vlameitinghe: ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 6:50am

5. Letter from Duffield, Lloyd Quintus

   office as it is my turn to “be on guard” as it were while others are out having a time. Each one has to ... they marched away----------------- THE BEST OF THE BATTALION. I can tell you that it made the cold ... the boys march off to the thing which they have been training for so long. Can you imagine my feelings ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

6. Letter from Dutton Advance

   3 o'clock we have to get up and march out to the trenches, and lay there till daylight, watching for an ... They seem to think that March will about finish the war, but of course that is only guessing at it. ... 1900 March 1st Dutton Advance John Smith no ...

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

7. Letter from Tait, Andrew Ernest

   afternoon when we arrived at a little town not so far from the front and we marched to our billets where we ... a big pile of mail from you all and I shall be glad to hear from you We are going to have a long march ... Well Marion I am writing this by degrees this is the 12th and we have had a march to another place we ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 11:32pm

8. Letter from Mercer, Richard William

   [transcription and footnotes have been provided by the collection donor] Wawota March 27, 1916 ... Theodore as of March 2003. [12] No further description about the eye problems is noted in correspondence. ... then to Yorkton and Theodore. In any event, the time and effort to return home would be difficult. [16] ...

   Editor - Nov 30 2021 - 10:59am

9. Memoir from Foster, Kenneth Walter

   remaining one being kept for myself. At this time the War was just getting underway very nicely and although ... go, so a few days after I returned much the same as before, but a year older. This time my efforts ... strenuous training, long route marches with full pack, along dusty roads, and the thermometer reading around ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:53pm

10. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

    many fresh scenes and done so many things out of the ordinary that the time has gone rather quickly. ... it must seem that I have been away a long time to you because you are always thinking about me, being ... glad of the [?] when they arrive altho' I don't get very much time for reading mainly because ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:14pm