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1. Letter from Burnard, Harvey Simion

   delivered us breakfast in bed. Go down stairs and contact our special waiter to find out what time we can ... one was a 1300 lb time bomb that they got out before it exploded and a small one that exploded but ... last trip to the Theatre. Had a good luck to wreck my wrist watch again doing some P.T. I though I had ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:52pm

2. Letter from Johns, Lawrence Earl

   try and sleep I was on the watch for a crack any time. Percy Clarke was in the same coach he can take ... hangings off. he got half of his cigar back I suppose by the time you get this letter that the threshing ... we were away and he left a lot of it in there Well Good by for this time. Write Soon Earl. Army WWI ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:03pm

3. Letter from Brown, Jack Malcolm

   use again, in time I am marked for a board, so it is just what they say that goes. Probably they will ... put me on a job of some description in this country, but I will not be going to France for a long time ... anyhow. When Marion sends that engagement ring and my watch to you, will you please forward them on to me ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:27am

4. Letter from Johns, Lawrence Earl

   trenches killing a few men so he is kept busy watching all the time. At night somewhere within hearing some ... first from Canada for 3 weeks. yours amongst them I seemed a long time without mail but I guess the mail ... present time. Up where we come from they keep teasing him all the time. Going over and bombing his ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:13pm

5. Letter from Duncan, Robert James

   school. Evidently you and Mother are having a pretty good time together. How about going to a show with ... house there is a fountain and a pond with gold fish in it. We sometimes watch the little fish and try to ... frost enough to make shell ice at the same time. This still seems strange to me after seeing three ...

   Editor - Dec 29 2023 - 11:38am

6. Letter from McNeill, John

   not done enough, it will soon be four years since I left home, it has been a long time, dear, & ... a lot of things have happened in that time, perhaps I ought to be thankful that I am alive, but I don’t ... know, there have been lots of times when I thought I would have been better dead & have it all ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:12pm

7. Letter from Martyn, William Wallace Haig

   watch today. Very high wind blowing 40 knots and sea is rough. I was up from 2:30- 4:30 on bridge doing ... anchor watch this morning on account of gale. The night before last Bell- my partner in this cabin- ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 5:13am

8. Letter from Winterbottom, Sydney Amyas

   as all I did was to stand in my box and watch the other fellows falling down. For instance I would ... watch I sent home for repairs some weeks ago? Please let me know as I feel worried about it. Army WWI ...

   Editor - Sep 29 2022 - 8:50am

9. Letter from New Liskeard Speaker

   contingent, lost no time in getting on the way and went almost direct from here to the Old Country. DEAR ... time this evening. I made the trip O.K., wasn't sea sick at all. We have lots of good grub, the ... very best. The going has been good on the whole, only at times a little rough. We have been in the war ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:55pm

10. Letter from Harber, T. Lloyd

    beginning to get a tan. I have received both of your letters. They got here the same time as Mum’s did. It ... took only 8 days this time. The mail has been coming in regular lately almost every day. I have been ... Coy. and the same platoon, we chum around together all the time. He looks quite a bit like me, people ...

    Editor - Oct 31 2023 - 2:47pm