Category: Organizations
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Artifact 1940-11-08 – Letter to Miss La Verne Woods
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“…I can’t say much to-nite. But I do wish I were back home.”
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Artifact 1940-11-05 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman
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“But a Gerry just flew over & he was real low.”
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Artifact 1940-11-01 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman
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“Billie wrote a letter to me & put it in with Onn. He’s quite a boy Isn’t he?”
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Artifact 1940-10-27-c – Postcard to Mrs. Elton Newman
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Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman – October 27, 1940 Transcription of Artifact Content Oct. 27/40 Dear Franc:- Here is one of the cards that are sent with the cigarettes. I told you I’d send the card back. I have written a letter too. So in case you don’t get the letter. You may get this…
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Artifact 1940-10-24 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman
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in 1940, Aldershot, Auxiliary Territorial Service (A.T.S.), Burns Bros., Butch Mallott, Detention Center, Elton Newman, Eva Robson, Frances Newman, Glen Piper, Hugh Burling, Jimmie Tweedale, Letter, Military Leave, Military Police, Onnellee Reive, Pat Burling, Pearl, Pearl’s Cousin, Pearl’s Sister, Royal Canadian Engineers (R.C.E.)
"Gerry", A.T.S. [Auxillary Territorial Service], bombing, Butch Mallott, C.A.S.F., Chinese Checkers, cousin, darts, detention center, Elton [Newman], Eva [Pearl's cousin], Glen, Hugh Burling, Jimmie Tweedale, leave, London [Ontario], London [UK], Onn [Onnellee Reive], Pat [Burling?], Pearl's sister, police, R.C.E. [Royal Canadian Engineers], refugee children, ship, ship sinking, sister, Stewy, the Burns, tonsils, xmas“I’m sorry you haven’t heard from me for so long. It isn’t because I haven’t written. It must be as you said. It went down on that ship with those refugee children.”
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Artifact 1940-10-16 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman
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“Boy Sat. nite in London the bombs were really falling.”
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Artifact 1940-10-11 – Letter to Miss La Verne Woods
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in 1940, Aunt Della, Auxiliary Territorial Service (A.T.S.), Base P.O., Frances Newman, Glen Upcott, Jean, La Verne Woods (née Manchester), Letter, Mary Alice, Military Leave, Miscellaneous, Onnellee Reive, Utah Hickmoth, Windsor
A.T.S. [Auxillary Territorial Service], A.T.S. girls, Aldershot, aunt, Aunt Della, Base P.O., bombing, cigarettes, Cottam, cousin, dance, England, Franc [Francis Newman], Glen Upcott, grandmother, husband, Jean, Jimmy Neal, leave [military], Mary Alice, military district, nurses, office, Onn [Onnellee Reive], Onnellee [Reive], Scotland, show, sister, soldiers, Utah Hickmoth, Windsor“Well the liking of England is wearing off now.”
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Artifact 1940-09-26 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman
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in 1940, Aldershot, Burns Bros., Canada, Canada Bread, Clarence, Earl Laramie, England, Erma H., Frances Newman, Glen Piper, Letter, Lillian, London, Marsh Healey, Mrs. Tessier, Onnellee Reive, Ontario, Orrence, Ruthven, Stewy Hastein, United Kingdom
adjutant, advisor, batman, boy friend, Burns Brothers, cake, Canada Bread, caned goods, cheese, cigarettes, convoy, Doublemint Gum, Earl Laramie, Erma H., fudge, George Fields, Glen Piper, Haggins, Kiddies, Lillian, Marshall (Marsh) Healey, Mrs. Tessier, Onnellee [Reive], Orrence, Pearl, Pearl’s sister, Pearl's cousin, pork & beans, potted pie, private stenographer, razor blades, salted peanuts, Stewy Hastien, Uncle Henry“Boy I had some swell ‘coconut cream’ pie last. nite. This cousin of Pearls that lives alone in an apartment in London. She is a private stenographer & adviser of a lawyer. & she came down yesterday aft. & went back this morn”
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Artifact 1940-09-24 – Letter to Miss La Verne Woods
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“I never saw so much military work done in my life before & I hope I never see it again”
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Artifact 1940-09-20 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman
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“The boys that don’t smoke pipes use the same kind of tobacco & roll the butts into another cigarette. There is very little tobacco wasted over here.”