Sussex, New Brunswick, Friday July 18/41

Dear Sweetheart,

Still here, but not for long. We are all packed, the huts are being scrubbed down and everyone is busy. This will be my last letter I will be sending you from in Canada. I'm having it mailed in Toronto by Mrs. Moore Jackson who is going home tomorrow. I had a letter and parcel today. The letter was from you. Written Tuesday, and the parcel from Dunlop's. It came at an inopportune time for me as every available niche of space is filled in my pack and kitbag. So we have just finished eating everything eatable that was in it. The rest of the stuff is split up amongst us.

I have a few postcards of Quebec City left and I'm sending one to each of the kids. They'll go in the regular mail and may be a few days late getting to you. All mail, civilian and otherwise is being held up in Sussex and will not be sent on until we are away from here. One thing I forgot to mention previously is my new address. It will be B64408 Sgt. D.K. Hazzard, ‘C' Coy. 1st Battalion, Queens Own Rifles of Canada, Canadian Army Overseas.

And now all I want to say is what I've said many times before. I love you. That is something that will never change as long as I live. And I have been doing what you asked in our letter ever since I have been away. That is I remember you in prayer every night before I drop off to sleep. It is very necessary from now on that both of us put all out trust and faith in the God that we both know and who has brought us along the way so far. So with all my love to you, Anne and Karen and Nanny I am as always,

Yours

David K.

P.S. I love you.

Keep your chin up and keep smiling. Dave

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Keep the young ladies trained in the way they should go so

Sussex, New Brunswick Friday July 18th 1941

Dear Sweetheart

Another opportunity to get mail away and I can't resist taking it so that I can tell you again that I love you. I'm going on my way to bed and as a last thoguht I want you to know that you are very much with me. We have to get up at 3:30 am tomorrow as that is the big day. We are supposed to have breakfast on the train which leaves here at 6:30 am and supper on the boat which will take us over. Just how soon I can get mail to you after that is a question. I hope that it will be soon. I received your air mail letter this afternoon and I'm glad to hear you say that you have caught the idea of living one day at a time. Also if you have an easier feeling mentally and, as you say, are confident that we will be together for a long time to come it means that you have really turned over your worries to the Father who has been so generaous to both of us and that thought makes me very happy. As far as any ‘blue' letters you may send me, are concenred, don't worry. I know how you feel and also why you write them. After all aren't my shoulders meant for you to cry on? Or rather, am I not supposed to comfort you in any way I can? And I love doing it. So ‘blue' letters are a necessity now and then and I love you for knowing that I will and do understand.

Keep close in your heart the knowledge that I love you forever and always, and that our Father is looking after both of us. Keep the young ladies trained in the way they should go so that eventyually we'll see them grow into ladies as sweet as you are. With all my love to you, Anne, Karen and Nanny I am

Yours forver

David K.

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P.S. I love you

Dave

The weather has been perfect so far and I don't think that we have had any seasickness yet

Letterhead of - CANADIAN PACIFIC, ROYAL YORK, TORONTO (undated)

Dear Sweetheart,

At present we are living the life of Reilly and to prove this I am enclosing the menus of one day. The weather has been perfect so far and I don't think that we have had any seasickness yet. There is a bit of a storm blowing up at present and we have seen one small iceberg.

My biggest trouble so far is finding my way around. I have trouble locating my platoon and after I find them I can't find my way back to my own cabin.

I sent Anne a letter-card which will let Dad and Mother know that we are on our way somewhere. Our mail will be censored from now on and names of places, troops, dates and times cannot be mentioned. So don't be surprised if the menus I mentioned are not in the letter.

I'll write again soon and give you as much detail of our entire trip as I am allowed to.

Always yours.

Dave

P.S. I love you

Dave

When this business is over, you and I are certainly going on a long trip together

July 1941, On board the HMT Strathmore

Dear Sweetheart,

We are certainly travelling in style at present. Weather is perfect and the meals are the kind you read about. It will be a bit of a bump to land back into camp life when we finally reach our destination. When this business is over, you and I are certainly going on a long trip together. With all my love. I am

Always Yours, Dave.

PS I still do.