Dreams of Things That Were

The Wartime Correspondence of Harry William Manchester

Category: No 2 Coy, Canadian Provo Corps

  • Artifact 1940-08-13-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman

    Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman – August 13, 1940

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    Aldershot, Eng.
    Tues. Aug. 13/40

    Dear Franc:-

    Well I’ve finally set down to write you another letter. I have been going to write you for the last two or three days but just hadn’t got settled to it.

    I made my assignment this morn. Of twenty dollars. I think it will start from the first of August. & you should get your first cheque the first of September. However Franc. be sure & let me know when it comes & if it the full twenty dollars are there. Also don’t forget to send in that insurance book every couple or three months & they will mark it & send it back. That is the one I told you to send to them.

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  • Artifact 1940-11-09-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman

    Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman – November 9, 1940

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    Aldershot England
    November 9/40

    Dear Franc:-

    Well we’ve been well over a week without any mail from Can.

    But then I’m going to write to you anyway. I haven’t had a letter from you since you got your tonsils out.

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  • Artifact 1940-11-19-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman

    Artifact 1940-11-19-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman, sent from Aldershot, England, United Kingdom

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    Aldershot England
    November 19/40

    Dear Franc:-

    Well, how is everyone over there. I still have this rotten cold. & every time I cough, I get pains across my stomach. I went into the M.O. to-nite & he said it was from my cold & it would leave with the cold. But the cold isn’t leaving. It’s getting worse

    I told you about me going. On the provost course. So yesterday. They sent me over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters for an interview. They asked me if I would volunteer into the provost corps, if I passed the course & I said “yes”. So I don’t know what’ll happen They’ll probably call me when they need me.

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  • Artifact 1940-11-23-a – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman

    Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman – November 23, 1940

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    Aldershot England
    November 23/40

    Dear Franc:-

    I received your thousand cigs yesterday. But haven’t got the parcel you sent with the razor blades in. I guess the fish must be showing with them, at the bottom of the ocean. Well Thanks a lot for the cigs Franc.

    I sent a parcel to you Franc. Yesterday! There is three xmas boxes in it. One for “Peg.” One for Marj. & Marion. & one for pearl & her sister. If I send them separate Franc. It would cost me a lot of money & sending the three in one won’t cost me much more than one would.

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