Witness to Events

Letters to and from the soldiers at the front were the only way of passing information back and forth between loved ones at home. Most of these have been lost to time. Some that survived are shown in this section. It is likely that many of the ones transcribed from newspapers have been edited before their initial publication . If you have letters that you would like to share on this page, please contact marc. Clicking on the "Submitted" field will display the most recent entries at the top of the page.

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Date	From	Source	Topic	Submitted	By
6/17/1919	Maurice Acheson	Calgary Daily Herald	Facts about Kinmel Park Made Public	8/10/2008	marc
3/27/1919	Captain Howard Clouston	Huntingdon Gleaner, Huntingdon, Quebec	Account of the Kinmel Park Riots	8/27/2005	marc
12/20/1918	William Edgar Doherty	Private Letter	On receipt of Christmas parcels from home	9/2/2006	marc
12/14/1918	Private John Cushnie	Private Collection	I'll be home Friday	12/28/2012	Anne Hales
12/13/1918	Sergeant George Maben	Red Deer Advocate	Talks about being at Mons on 11/11/18 & about his feelings of the war being over.	8/28/2005	chris.wight
11/28/1918	Unnamed Soldier	Huntingdon Gleaner, Huntingdon, Quebec	The last hours of the war	10/20/2005	marc
11/25/1918	Private John Cushnie	Private Collection	Rumours about going home	12/28/2012	Anne Hales
11/21/1918	Leslie Sellar	Huntingdon Gleaner, Huntingdon, Quebec	Riding a camel	10/18/2005	marc
11/19/1918	Crysler	Huntingdon Gleaner, Huntingdon, Quebec	Letter written shortly after the Armistice	10/23/2005	marc
11/19/1918	John Alexander Fee	Huntingdon Gleaner, Huntingdon, Quebec	Letter to his sister after the Armistice	10/23/2005	marc

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