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1. Letter from Hamm, Charles Bovyer

   too. Just a few yards from here I can see a 12 inch shell that Fritz thew over some time ago (maybe ... a few months ago.) but it failed to explode. It would make a fine watch-fob. What is Walter Jones and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 12:16pm

2. Letter from McNaughton, John Leslie

   I must write you just a not tonight since I have some time to spare. Last night your letter of the 16th ... the trenches where they help to break the monotony of the routine. We are in Reserve this time and are ... having a pretty easy time. The Germans just here behave themselves pretty well and that means less work ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:50pm

3. Letter from Shortreed, Robert

   a letter from Elizabeth so I am not doing so bad. These letters are a long time coming as they are almost ... Anyway it will delay anything the enemy has planned and with the approach of shorter days, time will be ... need a guard to watch it, if coal gets scarce. You will be making the best of the summer weather now ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:32am

4. Letter from Simpson, Harold Henry

   honor. Yesterday forenoon we watched General Plummer take the salute of his army as they marched across ... Watch on the Rhine", that is I am in charge of the guard and while my sentries pace their beats by ... course. Well Mother it his time to change sentries so I will say au revoir. Love to all from, Harold Army ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:56am

5. Letter from Biollo, Peter Joseph

   get over and see Canuck land. They aren’t all like that of course, but you gotta watch your step or ... I missed you all very much and thought of you all, all the time. I myself hope the next one finds me home ... months and if some people don’t watch out I’ll be bringing home an English bride – that’ll be the day. ...

   Editor - Jan 12 2023 - 11:55am

6. Poem from Richards, Edward Gordon Coke

   reaching out for him. We watched him climb the parapet, we watched and held our breath; For we all knew ...

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

7. Letter from McKenzie, Malcolm

   the post office. I was glad to get the cookies and bars. My wrist watch is fine. Everything is going ... O.K. here. Today our division cleans ship and I am on duty watch this afternoon so I won’t get off ...

   Editor - Mar 28 2022 - 3:51pm

8. Letter from Shortreed, Robert

   Somewhere in France Feb 15th 1918 Dear Father: Have not addressed you for some time so will write ... work preparatory to taking it up. For some time it consists of office work at the battery position of ... is always an officer and observor on duty at the same time. The shift is for 24 hours and then 24 ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:34am

9. Letter from Wood, William John

   either, which is really the reason I have overlooked the passing of time. even my watch refuses to measure ... the hours; so as I write, I watch it going again in a bath of gasoline, which I am hoping will help it ... I suppose my etchings will be back to you from the city by this time, so you will have them handy for the ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

10. Letter from Cobourg World

    careful with the light and in the day time we have to watch the smoke, as, if old Fritz gets his eyes on ... rather miserable weather over here lately, cold and wet most of the time. The mud is something awful and ... throat and lungs seem to be burning out all the time. I expect that I will be all right in a few days ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Nov 29 2021 - 6:23pm