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  1. Letter from Beattie, Reverend William

    create a sensation but [?] I am to spend a life time there I ought to quit now. I was very very sorry to ... watchful care of mother. He has been so good to her & I know she loves him like one[?]. Give mother ... kisses for her. How long ago it seems & yet how short. Time creeps as in a [?] [?] be 44. It seems ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 8:11am

  2. Letter from Davey, John Vernon

    in bed with the flu & hope by the time this reaches you he will be back to work again. I am ... How are you getting on Mom better all the time I hope. Thats to bad you had to have Dad in bed on the ... last week I was on duty watch & had to stay in barracks, but will phone him next week. I met a Cpl ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 1:53am

  3. Letter from Buckley, Douglas George

    artillery etc were everywhere. Just jumped up from this letter to watch a military aeroplane shoot past ... cinch. Have half the time to myself but of course cant leave the hut. We drill 8 hours a day now but ... and the next Tuesday he was back wounded. They dont waste much time sometimes do they. We have ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 3:35am

  4. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

    makes very pleasant reading. I want to take time here to compliment Audrey on her lovely penmanship, it ... last week. The first time I put on those trunks I felt as though I was parading in my birthday suit, ... when the time comes to eat them. Speaking of wild game reminds me of a dinner I had here the other day, ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

  5. Letter from Boggs, Herbert Beaumont

    it does not been actually in the trenches yet or for a good long time to come. I have always been ... course it makes France more interesting to us now and we will watch for every bit of news. I don’t see ... you will be allowed to write for a time at least. I see we are to have a 2 cent postage to France ...

    Editor - Dec 17 2021 - 12:47pm

  6. Letter from Chesney, Margaret Helen

    leave was swell but so very short. It seemed all I did was get home and it was time to come back again. ... Nora’s apartment and made breakfast and then Ron took me up the Mountain, and being the first time it was ... may have to lose his finger. For old time sake was going to visit him but found no visitors allowed ...

    Editor - Jan 29 2022 - 9:29am

  7. Letter from Carry On: Letters in War-Time

    their elders. So they have the merriest of times while they can, and when the governess. Death, summons ... probably have to go up to the observation station to watch the effect of fire to-night. But before I turn ... danger until you come to think about it afterwards—at the time it's like playing cocoanut shies at ...

    Editor - Jul 30 2022 - 5:07pm

  8. Letter from Carry On: Letters in War-Time

    a copy of Anne Veronica with me, so that if I get a chance I can forget time. Always when I write to you ... private wandering across a shell-torn field. I watched him and thought something was wrong by the ... I wish I could know in time when I get my leave for you to come over and meet me. I'm going to spend ...

    Editor - Jul 31 2022 - 9:28am

  9. Letter from Andrews, Gerald Smedley

    Midlands, farther west and north. It might have been these hard times which stimulated John A to emigrate in ... respectively, but I didn't take time to find the connection [?] these who came later, no doubt they were ... "golden age" of East Anglia, (the name applied to Suffolk and Norfolk). Hard times came to the ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 1:20am

  10. Letter from Forbes, Donald M.

    death was noticed said that he had some money & a watch with him. There is also his badge which is ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:19pm