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1. Letter from Davis, Lena Aloa

   days was turning my watch on forty minutes each day. Then I crawled up on deck and got cold and got ... more. We have life boat drill quite often. The whistle blows two or three times, then we rush for our ... keep quite neat. Your clean shirt and collars and watch and revolver In his bag he will secrete. He has ...

   Editor - Mar 1 2022 - 10:53am

2. Letter from Gilroy, Wilbert H.

   off before tea time or bust. It is certainly beginning to look like Xmas in this room. The Winnipeg ... from being an Indian. I think it will take me a long time to thank them all. I hope we don't have ... I used to watch its progress each day as I went in and out from my meals. I hope Em will like it. I also ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 12:28pm

3. Letter from Reid, Donald Calderwood

   hasn't had patients for some time on account of getting ready to move and twelve of us are at No.1 [?] We ... actual work is nicer than in the day time as you come just as you please, no one to try to boss you, but ... it's the sleeping in the daytime that I don't like. We have only a month at a time through so ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:55pm

4. Letter from Reid, Daniel Spencer

   hasn't had patients for some time on account of getting ready to move and twelve of us are at No.1 [?] We ... actual work is nicer than in the day time as you come just as you please, no one to try to boss you, but ... it's the sleeping in the daytime that I don't like. We have only a month at a time through so ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 5:02pm

5. Letter from Stares, William James

   I.O.D.E. has come to our assistance at a very good time with a parcle of Socks in which we all need – at ... the present time I am wearing Sand-bags for Socks and Putties, the only pair I possess being satuated. ... interest you & the friends what the Scouts pass away there time in. We are working Night and Day in ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

6. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

   week sent my nerves off again & I have been having quite a time with insomnia- how ever I hope that ... wounded, how time flies- but yet what an experience had been crowded into that time, for both of us- days ... & not Rose. My place of abode will be so unsettled for some time to come that it will be the better ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 11:07am

7. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

   a very busy time in camp Xmas and New Year’s eve. New Year’s Day I came north and here I am settled down ... good to me as I had a fine time between Xmas and New Year. A young lady asked me to her home to a New ... Year Eve party and I had a fine time although I knew no one before I went there. I may say I felt quite ...

   Editor - Feb 1 2022 - 3:42pm

8. Letter from Thorpe, James Stokesbury

   Flanders 6th March 1916 Dear Ma and Tax: By the time you read this the Battle of Verdun will be ... the observation point to watch the effect on the German lines through my glasses. The guns were fired ... anymore. I suppose you want to know how I felt the first time under fire. Well I'll tell you what ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Mar 6 2022 - 6:24am

9. Letter from Ross, James Wells

   that awful ocean. It would only make you miserable to see me for so short a time. I often think how ... afternoon while I was sitting here writing indents, Marie a little girl from next door watched me with ... he did not come to our battery. We had things very tidy that day. The last time I was in the trenches ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 3:38pm

10. Letter from Milthorp, Frederick John

    watched for the mail coming in, thinking there would be one of your precious letters, but have been ... disappointed every time. Dearest, this week has seemed to me the longest I have ever gone through. What ... present, it is just a matter of killing time. Our guns are not in action yet but we have a working party up ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 4:08pm