Category: Burns Bros.
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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 1940-10-05 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman
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in 1940, Aldershot, Burns Bros., Canada, Clarence, Ducky Rome, Elmer, Elton Newman, England, Eula, Frances Newman, Glen Piper, La Verne Woods (née Manchester), Letter, Lillian, London, Military Leave, Montreal, Mort, Onnellee Reive, Ontario, Pearl, Pearl’s Cousin, Pearl’s Sister, Quebec, Ruthven, Stewy Mossips, United Kingdom, Windsor
bombing raid, Burns' boys [brothers], canned goods, cigarettes, Clarence [unspecified], Ducky Rome, Elmer [unspecified], Elton [Newman], Eula [unspecified], Glen [Piper], John [unspecified], Kiddies, La Verne [Woods], lawyer, Lillian [unspecified], military leave, Mort [unspecified], Onn. [Onnelle Reive], Pearl, Pearl’s sister, Pearl's cousin, pies, razor blades, Regiment, shilling, Stewy Mossips, wedding“We are having quite a bit of bombing Franc. But London has been getting the worst of it.”
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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 1940-07-20-b – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman
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“I have saw quite a number of refugees & also german prisoners.”