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  1. Letter from McKenzie, Malcolm

    work is not bad and we get special privileges, such as no duty watch and we can go up town anytime we ... have a lot more spare time that I had at Chippawa, and have been doing a lot of reading. I have been to ...

    Editor - Mar 28 2022 - 4:00pm

  2. Letter from Winterbottom, Sydney Amyas

    separate times of course we took darned good care to duck. I happened to look at my gun when things were ... that way. What seems so exciting is to watch the aeroplane flights over our lines. Old Fritz will send ...

    Editor - Oct 3 2022 - 1:08pm

  3. Letter from Doerksen, Kenn W.

    I guess. I miss you all so much and I wish so that I could be with you. I sat trying to watch a dumb movie ... the kids, playing guitar in the bathroom. It’s the first time it has really hit me but I guess I’ll ...

    Editor - Oct 14 2022 - 10:14am

  4. Letter from Gass, Clarence Reginald

    I haven't tasted any for five or six months. I said several times that I received the sweater etc. so ... is in ruins. I think it was built before the time the Normans landed here. I was told that it was ... South and are in the heavy fighting and I have been watching the casualty lists for names of my chums. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:46pm

  5. Letter from Cobourg World

    about time he was getting a pass to his blighty. If you have been watching the papers, which I presume ... believe me. Some time ago I got the papers and the Jack Kanuck, which were also very gladly received. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 30 2021 - 3:47pm

  6. Letter from Loney, Edward (Ted)

    Buffalo as I mentioned and had a grand time. I left here about 8 o'clock Saturday morning and hitch ... the U.S.O. and I didn't do to[o] badly, and had a good time. On Sunday we wandered around town in ... that my watch was still going, I guess I spoke too soon as it has quit all together now. About Doug ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 3:47pm

  7. Letter from Creswell, George Elliot

    time. It's not a bad station-only spread out too much. Our barracks are two miles from the mess. ... yet so had a wonderful time. We went skating which was quite a treat-on artificial ice. In the evening ... get me a new watch. Mine has seemed to go on the blink again and it's impossible to get it fixed ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:30pm

  8. Letter from Skeet, Frank

    spoke of, came out all right, for it must bother you a lot. I guess by the time you get this you'll ... see all kinds of air duels here and it makes you hold your breath sometimes to watch them. And ... without them here, and they say you get used to them,.. I hae ma doots- one gets a new tribe every time he ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 4:55pm

  9. Letter from Sinclair, Lawrence Charles

    along. The Farmers out here must be looking after him pretty good. I hope Peggy & Flo are watching ... is awfully good of them to think of me. I’ll try and drop them a line some time. I wrote Susie Clare ... address. He could ask Fred. and Fred could let me know from where ever he is. It is almost bed time so ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

  10. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

    If you do happen to see any snap in the Toronto Star or some such, watch out for me. I am standing ... holes before the next relay fires. This makes the second time I have been to the ranges in less than ... three weeks, so I will soon be a fair rifle shot. The last time I was there, I got the only possible on ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm