Letter to Mother
29/08/1916
Inclosed is a maple lead picked on the north side of Lake Superior Ont. A Holly leaf picked on yesterdays marsh.
Letter to Mother from Quarantine
28/08/1916
I just have time to say hello Our doctor is going back to Canada this A.M. and we are going to send these letters along
Letter to Mother from Ireland
23/08/1916
We are running along the coast of Ireland out about 10 miles I think but we were close enough a while ago to see how nice and trim the farms were kept and we saw the long winding roads up the high hill side that extend up from the sea.
Letter to Teddy from London, England
16/08/1916
We are out just about 3 days it will be in an other few min. and the weather is foggy today we can not see the next boat behind use it is about half mile away and I did not go forward to see if we could see the one ahead the same distance.
Letter to Mother from East of Montreal Camp
13/08/1916
I never thought of this being Sun. A.M. till right now and it is 7.48 A.M. we are traveling along at about 50 per, and the boys are getting shined up right after breakfast.
Letter to Teddy from Camp Hughes
10/08/1916
It is 8.5 A.M. and we fall in with sacks on our backs at 1.30 P.M. to parade to the depot to entrain for the east coast
Letter to Mother
09/08/1916
I did get back until 5 P.M. Sat. in a big rain I think I told or did I write since. We are leaving hear tomorrow after noon or about noon every thing is packed and lots of it loaded in the transport car
Letter to Otto from Camp Hughes
09/08/1916
We are off tomorrow for the east and of coarse we don’t know where in end but here is hoping that we will end up in Canada before many years.
Letter from The Waverley Hotel Weyburn, Saskatchewan
04/08/1916
We got in here about 4.30 so we had some time to kill before supper
Letter to Home
31/07/1916
I am getting indifferent these days and I am not keeping up my correspondence as I should but I guess you folks will have to excuse me till after the war and I will make amends if possible,
Letter to Home - On The Magazine Guard
25/07/1916
I received your most welcome letter yesterday and after that I looked up the receipt for the registered letter I sent you on July 15th so I will go to post office and start a search on it.
Letter Home from Camp Hughes
21/07/1916
I received your most welcome letter yesterday and can’t help but say that I was surprised to here that it had been so long between my letters, but you must have got one about the time you wrote because I sent you the check by registered mail.
Letter to Home
16/07/1916
Just a word before I go to bed, I have been on guard from 7 P.M. Sat. till 7.30 P.M. Sun.
Letter Home from Camp Hughes
27/06/1916
I received you letter to night right after supper, and I can't account for you beleaving the stories that you have heard about the poor chuck at C.H. for I have thought that I told you lots of times that we have lots of good meat potatoes and every day we have for one meal either turnips, carrots, parsnips or onions, and we have good soup once or twice a day.
Letter Home from Camp Hughes
23/06/1916
I was looking thru my kit bag a minuit ago and I just thought how good I felt but my mind wandered back to home and Mother and I thought I would just like to write you a short letter.
Letter to Alice from Camp Hughes
21/06/1916
It has been raining off and on, we ran for the tent once and stayed in for one hour I suppose then we went out and took a lecture on the Ross rifle and pulled the trigger a few times and then we went and trained bayonet fighting for the rest of the P.M.
Letter Home from Camp Hughes
20/06/1916
I just received a letter from Myrtle she told me about Edna’s shower she is to be married on the 21st at her home in Waldeck.
Letter Home from Camp Hughes
13/06/1916
I received a bunch of letters from home the other day, and to night I received four from different places to night.
Letter Home from Camp Hughes
09/06/1916
I am still killing time and wish I was at work again I am afraid I will be lazy when I get back to it again.
Letter to Teddy from Camp Hughes
07/06/1916
I guess I have very nearly forgotten you, but not quite.
Letter Home from Moosejaw Armoury
20/05/1916
I received your letter several days ago and could have ans. it yesterday some of the boys came along and we just talked at the table here
Letter Home from Moosejaw Armoury
09/04/1916
I am getting along fine so far the meals are fine. I never thot they would be anything like they are. I am getting an appetite and if I am lucky in ough to keep from getting a cold I will be all right.
Letter home from Moosejaw Armoury
02/01/1916
The first bunch of the 128th boys left tonight for Camp Hughs, and we will follow on Sunday night. I am still holding down my assistant taylor job which I surely like Sargent Potts paid my my per cent to night amounting $4.50 for an hour and a halfs work over four and a half days and my army pay goes on just the same.