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  1. Letter from Burnard, Harvey Simion

    moved again this time for a weeks duration. I'm taking a course in wireless. Are quarters are good ... system of Great Britain. You sit around a fire place and watch the heat going up the chimney. It's ... taken. They are so much alike they have a hard time telling their pictures apart. Had a letter from Clive ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:53pm

  2. Letter from Cook, Alfred Frank

    I shall be glad when I get going for a do bale watching all the boys getting ahead of me, and you know you ... & all day to do it in. Time hangs on your hand. I did an hour’s machine cleaning and that is all ... I have done. I go down each day for a swim some times to a public swimming place and when the tide is out ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

  3. Letter from Richardson, Charles Douglas

    still here. It seems to be the rule to tell us we will be going in a few days and then when the time ... things doing all the time. A barrel of apples was emptied too and a good deal of coffee and cake ... a good time with them. One of the boys who is married and living in the city sent me a nice Gillette ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:15pm

  4. Letter from Davis, William Worth

    maroon covered book published by Hazlitt & Walker on watch and jewelery work, with several receipts ... I wish you would send me that gold filled Sivade wrist watch of mine, as the one I am wearing has no ... glass & is likely to give trouble. The next time I send anything home, I will send the bezel & ...

    Editor - Feb 13 2023 - 3:44pm

  5. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    much closer. A parcel arrived Sat. just in time for me to take a few items in it down to Haywards- ... lunch, but there were some last-minute "corrections" which I fortunately spotted in time to ... have time to go out to see Bill hall last week but now that we have a short spell to re-group our ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 1:36am

  6. Diary from Wilson, Andrew

    One hour on gun in morning. Then watched demonstration on hills by two gun crews on strong point ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:15pm

  7. Diary from Fardoe, George Samuel

    DISEASE USE YOUR HANDKERCHIEF WHEN YOU SNEEZE / N.Y. A.I.C.P. / WATCH YOUR SNEEZE CAMPAIGN.” [Note: ...

    Editor - May 9 2022 - 6:26am

  8. Letter from McKenzie, Malcolm

    March 10/44 Dear Mother and Dad, I am writing this as I am waiting for duty watch to sound. I am ... duty watch. We were sent to the sick bay, where we waxed some of the floors. In a few minutes fire ...

    Editor - Mar 28 2022 - 3:46pm

  9. Letter from McKenzie, Malcolm

    this letter. Last Saturday, I was on duty watch and we had to clean ship in the morning. In the ... as before. On Sunday morning, I thought that I was through work, when the duty watch was piped on the ...

    Editor - Mar 28 2022 - 3:52pm

  10. Poem from Richards, Edward Gordon Coke

    in the East was breaking, and the time was drawing near. Each man was impatient and nervous, like ... of the trenches waking them out of their sleep, Watching the lions of yesterday turning today into ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 7:23pm