Hi Guest!
Hey - did you know if you click on the title of a thread it will take you to the first unread post since you last visited that thread?
but were afraid to ask: 
STOP!! Never post your email address in open forums. Bots can "harvest" your email! If you must share your email use a Private Message or use the 
smilie in place of the real @
Pretty Please - add it to our Events forum(s) and add to the calendar! >> 
Sherlock
Yoda
Offline
Some of my Remembrance Day poppy portraits from this year, as posted to my Facebook, if you aren't on Facebook I'm not reposting them all... Sorry... https://www.facebook.com/james.twor...45230.1073741841.892675229&type=3&pnref=story
Also in Calgary we have a display of crosses for all the fallen soldiers of our region...
She is reading this letter:
Tuesday, August 4, 1918
Dear folks:- We are on the eve of a great offensive. I am sitting in my dugout filling in time until dawn tomorrow,when we go into action on a big scale. Everything that is possible has been done to conserve our lives - tanks, aeroplanes on an inconceivable scale, and so forth, but some of us may have to go. I may be of that number, in fact, if you get this, I shall be. I am leaving instructions with this and a couple
of other letters to mail only in to mail only in case of the worst. However, mistakes will happen, so make inquiries from my mother, Mrs. W.T. Perry, Ramsey P.O., Alta. I am writing to her in the same way, altho she would receive an official notice.
It has perhaps been a short time allotted to me here, but it has been a good one for me. I have more 'friends' than I have perhaps deserved and these friends have made life so worth while. What could be more wished for than real friendship? I suppose the same is true with me as with many other before me - I have done those things which I ought not to have done and have left undone those things which I ought to have done! Yet I am satisfied that my life was guided in the right direction, and whatever little I may have done, I hope will have made it a little easier for those with whom I have associated, to do right and enjoy life in a large way of speaking. I have no fear as to the future, believing that it is merely a transition from earthly life to one in a larger way, in a bigger realm. This makes the going easy, altho I suppose I shall feel that fear which all have, that of getting
hit, or that of uncertainty preceding a possible danger. That is only human.
That which we are about to do I hope will bring nearer the dawn of a brighter world, a world of unselfishness and human sympathy. That it has be accomplished by these means and that it has been necessary to sacrifice so much life and blood, we all regret; but if it is the only way, I am not one tho shirk the sacrifice. That this generation is "on the cross" for the future generations seems literally true. I hope the changes which follow this war will be lasting and that all the phases of life will be benefitted in ratio to the amount of sacrifice made. We ought to look for that much. I was praying to see the end of it, so as to follow the results, but I guess I wasn't meant to be.
There is little more I care to say. Except perhaps to say again how much I have enjoyed friendship with you all. If you carry on, doing what you can for fellows as you did with me, you will be doing a great deal toward bolstering up some for their future. You have helped me wonderfully. Do what you can for fellows in uniform. They need your kin friendship. They will meet enough to turn them astray when "out there." With friends like you, one daren't go wrong. It would be criminal. I mention this, knowing you are doing all you can, but wanting to show you how much it really counts for.
I hope I haven't written in a sad vein, as I fear nothing for tomorrow as yet, and I look with a great deal of hope upon the outcome, knowing as we might her do, just the obstacles we have to meet and that all is being done to lessen our task.
My love to you all. May God be with you and you ever.
Sincerely,
Ralph
West, Ralph E, 25, Pte 1st CMR, 26/08/18
Also in Calgary we have a display of crosses for all the fallen soldiers of our region...
She is reading this letter:
Tuesday, August 4, 1918
Dear folks:- We are on the eve of a great offensive. I am sitting in my dugout filling in time until dawn tomorrow,when we go into action on a big scale. Everything that is possible has been done to conserve our lives - tanks, aeroplanes on an inconceivable scale, and so forth, but some of us may have to go. I may be of that number, in fact, if you get this, I shall be. I am leaving instructions with this and a couple
of other letters to mail only in to mail only in case of the worst. However, mistakes will happen, so make inquiries from my mother, Mrs. W.T. Perry, Ramsey P.O., Alta. I am writing to her in the same way, altho she would receive an official notice.
It has perhaps been a short time allotted to me here, but it has been a good one for me. I have more 'friends' than I have perhaps deserved and these friends have made life so worth while. What could be more wished for than real friendship? I suppose the same is true with me as with many other before me - I have done those things which I ought not to have done and have left undone those things which I ought to have done! Yet I am satisfied that my life was guided in the right direction, and whatever little I may have done, I hope will have made it a little easier for those with whom I have associated, to do right and enjoy life in a large way of speaking. I have no fear as to the future, believing that it is merely a transition from earthly life to one in a larger way, in a bigger realm. This makes the going easy, altho I suppose I shall feel that fear which all have, that of getting
hit, or that of uncertainty preceding a possible danger. That is only human.
That which we are about to do I hope will bring nearer the dawn of a brighter world, a world of unselfishness and human sympathy. That it has be accomplished by these means and that it has been necessary to sacrifice so much life and blood, we all regret; but if it is the only way, I am not one tho shirk the sacrifice. That this generation is "on the cross" for the future generations seems literally true. I hope the changes which follow this war will be lasting and that all the phases of life will be benefitted in ratio to the amount of sacrifice made. We ought to look for that much. I was praying to see the end of it, so as to follow the results, but I guess I wasn't meant to be.
There is little more I care to say. Except perhaps to say again how much I have enjoyed friendship with you all. If you carry on, doing what you can for fellows as you did with me, you will be doing a great deal toward bolstering up some for their future. You have helped me wonderfully. Do what you can for fellows in uniform. They need your kin friendship. They will meet enough to turn them astray when "out there." With friends like you, one daren't go wrong. It would be criminal. I mention this, knowing you are doing all you can, but wanting to show you how much it really counts for.
I hope I haven't written in a sad vein, as I fear nothing for tomorrow as yet, and I look with a great deal of hope upon the outcome, knowing as we might her do, just the obstacles we have to meet and that all is being done to lessen our task.
My love to you all. May God be with you and you ever.
Sincerely,
Ralph
West, Ralph E, 25, Pte 1st CMR, 26/08/18
