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1. Diary from Johns, Lawrence Earl

   Thursday, March 22nd, 1917 Dirty day expect to be relieved to-night out on post at 6 P.M. untill ... relief came at 11 P.M. marched to Mt. St Eloy. Army WWI Europe France Diary 1917 March 22nd Johns, ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 7:36pm

2. Letter from Butler, Karl Vincent

   for the last two weeks, incidentally we are on daylight saving time now, the evenings are nice and ... went out right after dinner and returned in time fro supper. We have Saturday noon to Monday morning to ... ourselves with the exception of Sunday morning church parade. This is a bad time to start writing a letter ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:13pm

3. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   March 2nd, 1943 Dear Mom and Dad, Remember when I left home I said that you were not to expect to ... see me before March 15, 1943? Well, I am afraid we are going to have to revise that a little because ... today is March 2nd and that only gives me 13 days. There is no indication of any move yet, so I guess ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:09pm

4. Letter from Harber, T. Lloyd

   March 14/43 Camp Borden Dear Marg and Marie,– Well you will probably be surprised to receive ... first time I had been home since Christmas. There wasn’t much doing up home, about the only thing I did ... before I went home our Looy came up to me on a route march one day and told me that I had passed it. He ...

   Editor - Oct 31 2023 - 1:00pm

5. Letter from Fereday, Albert Henry

   we have usually being monopolised; [?] there is not any chance of getting fresh water in time. But ... morning, training was continued as usual. We were marched to the training area- commonly known as the bull ... our destination is reached we descend a steep slope into a small village. As we marched through it we ...

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

6. Letter from Johnson, Thomas William

   my own tent, and we had a glorious time. They had for the most part never seen England before and it ... more enthusiastic. We arrived at Shorncliffe in Kent about midnight of Saturday & marched in ... always cropping up I grew impatient. We filled in the time with the old form of drill, & a new ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 7:04pm

7. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

   several newsreel speeches. I saw a very good “March of Time” yesterday, where all the events from 1933 ... May 4, 1941 Well, here I am again after a week’s leave (8 days). I had a very good time and ... usual, it was very quiet. I say “as usual,” because this is the third time I have stayed in London ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

8. Letter from Moodie, Walter Hill

   the past eight weeks I shall try and give you some account. If all the details of our march from ... reached Pretoria. Our Regt spent some four weeks resting at Bloemfontein after their heavy marching from ... and marched a long five miles to camp, getting in at 10.30 The following day we spent a quiet Sunday ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:32am

9. Letter from Scherer, George Leslie

   we made good time and landed at 11.15. Then our troubles started. We had to march nearly a mile in ... Niagara Camp Niagara-on-the-Lake Thursday, 8.30 A.M. Dear Cath: This is the 3rd time I've ... favour of this moving around. You'll see why when I tell you how it was carried out this time. We ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 7:25am

10. Diary from Stewart, Walter F.

    march past; the band was there for this, and the people who came from miles around got the treat of ... they kept their oath, every man of the regiment. But there was a hot time in the old town on the day ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:00am