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  1. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

    & I am doing famously was up for the first time on Friday afternoon, & yesterday I spent the ... afternoon on the Beach, Aberdeen reading- sleeping & watching the ships & the bathers- to day some ... I am very glad that I have been there- I would have hated to have stayed in England all the time. Have ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:36am

  2. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

    time without news of you as you will of me I will try & let you have a few lines every day, though ... potatoes. I would like to know that you have everything you need before winter. Am sorry about the watch ... to be together every minute of the time during my leave. Good Bye dear- hugs- love & kisses to ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 11:03am

  3. Letter from Creswell, George Elliot

    Wed. Dec. 15/43 My Dearest Mother, Tonight I am on fire watch and have to stay up all night so ... have lots of time. Two of us are in each hotel. I'm still in Bournemouth- doing nothing and ... at a time by correspondence through the Educational Officer. I'm starting by taking French. The ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:26pm

  4. Letter from Johnson, Thomas William

    I hear that all leave is cancelled; but time will show. Of course the main thing, my going to Canada, is ... over the town putting in the broken windows. It was a sad thing to watch the funeral of some of the ... we shall have a good time together. Yours with best love Tom. Army WWI Europe Great Britain Letter ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 6:41pm

  5. Letter from Wilkinson, Frederick Edward

    times. I often wonder what they think of some of the pictures we show, and whether they form their ... limit during war times- tear around in gangs and are as destructive & and as curious as our own ... keep his hands off anything he sees,- if he is not watched. But as soon as he goes to work, he becomes ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 2:31am

  6. Letter from Humphrey, John "Jack" Fenton

    R 97725 Humphrey J.F. R.C.A.F. Overseas. July 9/44 Dear Mom & Pop: My watch arrived here ... I'm going to start ground school in about a week so I'll be there quite some time evidently ... us to have a game of cards not for money but just to pass the time. We have only been paid 3 pounds ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 16 2021 - 4:05am

  7. Letter from McQueen, Alexander Robertson

    three or four times with sick men and I watched the crowd going into the charity ward to be examined and ... June 13, 1915  Dear Mother;  I got your letter written en route some time ago but I haven’t ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

  8. Letter from Davis, William Worth

    time now. I also received parchment in leather case from Dr. Mc.Queen, was glad to get it, I wanted ... them to get these instead of watches in the first place, and so did Dr. I will write him later too. It ... brick etc. but it is very hard to keep them clean. Say, the next time you are sending anything, there is ...

    Editor - Feb 6 2023 - 10:12am

  9. Letter from Davis, William Worth

    14th Can. Gen. Hosp. Eastbourne, 6/11/17 Dear Dad, I really should have written Mir this time, as ... one for Mrs Chas. Thomson. She asked some time ago, for one. I think this the better of the two, and ... business in general lines, and especially in bracelet watches. When the first of Nov. came this year, ...

    Editor - Mar 16 2023 - 3:26pm

  10. Letter from New Liskeard Speaker

    a very trying time these last two weeks. They have made a musketry instructor out of me. I don't ... have the responsibility of them shooting at the targets and watching to see that they don't shoot ... there and have a standing invitation to go back any time. It was nearly (missing) o'clock before we ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 1:59pm