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1. Letter from Nanaimo Daily Free Press

   writes as follows to his sister Edith, the post card being dated from France, March 18; Have landed ... guns all the time. I expect to go in the trenches tonight. It's quite safe here, the boys say, as ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 5:24am

2. Pool, David and William

   a military hospital in September 1918. His older brother William Pool was born in Annan, Scotland, in March ... Battalion at the time of his death in September 1918. The collection currently consists of two letters from ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Mar 7 2024 - 5:44pm

3. Letter from Cousins, Frank C.

   March 12th My Dear Nellie:- Since returning from London I have received two of you letters and ... re-organized and I think 17, 18 and 19 Co's are going to France in a short time as the 1st Motor M. G. ... that direction at all times & in all seasons. I am still doing a little running and go out for ...

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

4. Letter from Ball, Samuel Warren

   March 18th yesterday. We have just came out of the line after being in [censored]. We chased Fritz off ... for a rest now but I don't know how long for. I will have more time to write now. I have got ten ... time we get to sleep the lice won't let us and I get cold by twisting around and scratching. We ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:56am

5. Letter from Hudgins, John

   there is much the matter with them by this time but still it’s orders that we have to have the strict ... me for the trip for it ought to be great by this, time it’s so warm.  Some change from Belgium for it ... rained all the time there and we have only had one storm here since the Bn. Landed.  I guess I didn’t ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

6. Letter from Hollett, William Lloyd

   March. 5th 1944 Dear Ebby: Just a few lines kid just a few.  I’ve been writing to everyone I know ... assumption that I might get a trusty eight hour pass home. at the end of the course. with travelling time to ... program still goes and as I said before Hennie and I will let you know in sufficient time to book seats ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

7. Letter from Rooke, (Robert, Charles, and George)

   from one of my Ottawa friends. We have just got back from a long march through the Lydenburg Mountains, ... kept the enemy on the move all the time. They are so badly broken up now that you might say the war is ... the front, he did his best to get some of them under his command. He thought for a long time that he ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 10:42am

8. Letter from Cousins, Frank C.

   Prince Albert. It sounded like old times. No snow seems strange and when we go out on a route march you ... in London. We certainly had a fine time. The only thing was [a] shortage of money. I am arranging ... reach me about the first week in March or a little later. You can send a draft payable at any London ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:31am

9. Letter from McLean, David

   France March 25, 1917 Dear Lettie I received four letters from you yesterday, one dated Feb. 15th, ... about two weeks ago but I have not received a letter from him for a long time. I got your mother's ... letter and box some time ago and I got a letter from Mrs. A. Desson saying that her Aunt and her were ...

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

10. Letter from Winterbottom, Sydney Amyas

    out in rest for some time. First of all we marched about ten miles and were billeted in barns. Our ... in that time so you see it is something like old B.C. for a time. Our regiment (11th CMR) has been ... march of about 12 miles on an ice covered road, we arrived here. We are in the nicest billets at present ...

    Editor - Oct 3 2022 - 1:41pm