Transcript of a WWI letter originally published in Cobourg World, C.W. Nunn, 11 December 1916, Colborne, Cramahe Township

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Cobourg World
Letter: 1917 January 12th
Date: January 12th 1917
To: Colborne Express
From: C.W. Nunn

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Sergt. C. W. NUNN Writes.
Sergt, Nunn writes Colborne Express as follows:
"Crowborough Camp, Sussex England,
December 11th, 1916.
I received papers O.K. and many thanks. There is a young chap who came with the last draft from Ottawa named Arthur Taylor. I think he worked for Mr. Willet Gould at one time. I hand him the Colborne papers to read. Have got settled down in operators' class. There are 70 or 80 of us. I met Captain Troop yesterday. He is taking the Officers' course which all have to do when they get over here. The 139th Machine Gun section is here, but, they are all strangers to me. Mr. Troop said none of the section belonged to Colborne. We moved here about November 22nd. It is about 40 miles west of Shorncliffe. It's a quiet place with lots of nice scenery and many beautiful homes; very hilly, and the town is supposed to be one of the highest points in England, being 800 feet above sea level. We have had frosty nights and it rains quite often."

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"Cobourg World
This collection contains nearly 300 letters from World War One published in The Cobourg World, a local newspaper published in Cobourg, Ontario. Newspapers across Canada regularly printed letters home from overseas, either letters written directly to the newspaper by the soldiers, or first written to the family and then contributed to the paper by the family. Collections such as those from The Cobourg World provide a fascinating look at the relationship of community and war as played out in the pages of the local newspaper. All letters in the collection have been previously published in the newspaper and were also later collected by local historian Percy Climo in a work entitled "Let Us Remember". The dates for which the letters are listed represent the dates on which they were published, as the original dates of the letters are not always indicated. Where the original date of writing is known it will be part of the letter text. Introductions to the letters and editorial comments as they appeared in the newspaper have been left as published. All transcriptions have been taken from copies on microfilm and as such there are no scans for this collection."

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