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3-5-42 Dear Herb, I was glad to get a letter from you today and glad to hear you are getting along good, getting the wood out and all that.  I guess this time last year we were hauling manure together.  I little thought I would be over here this year.  My letter broke the record that time. ...

King George and Queen Elizabeth Victoria League Club 121a Princes Street, Edinburgh January 16, 1942 Dear Herb I sent you a card from here and said on it that I would answer your air-mail letter when I got back from leave (I received it the day I left on leave).  Well this is my last day in...

Headquarters Squadron 1st C.A.Bde, (P.E.I.L.H) 5th Cdn Arm'd Div. Canadian Armt Overseas 5-1-42 Dear Mom As I have a little time to myself I thought I would drop a line to "home and mother and dad".  Joe LaPierre my roommate is writing to his mother so I thought I would write to mine.  How...

I started this project 10 years ago and then life got in the way.  I have decided to resume where I left off...

F77759 Tpr Philip Larkin H.2. Sqdrn, 1st C.A.B 5th Cdn Arm’d Div C.A.O. 28-12-41 Mr Herbert Larkin St Peters Bay P.E. Island Canada Dear Herb, I received your letter the 11th and sure was glad to get it even if it was mailed to Debert.  There was great excitement in the squadron the evening...

H.2. Squadron 1st Cdn Arm'd Bde 5th Cdn. Arm'd Division Cdn Army Overseas 7-12-41 Mr Herbert Larkin St Peters Bay P.E. Island Canada Dear Herb, How is the old boy these times and what is the whole go around there anyway?  It seems like ages since I heard from you.  And I guess it will be...

RAA231 EFM MAR X01 GREATBRITAIN 26    V***- JOHN J LARKIN STPETERSBAYPEI (MAIL FM AX) ALL WELL AND SAFE WRITING FONDEST GREETINGS PHIL LARKIN

H.2. Squadron 1st Cdn Arm'd Bde Camp Debert Nova Scotia c/o C.B.H. 2-11-41 Mr Herbert Larkin St Peter's Bay P.E. Island Dear Herb, I hope this finds you all well.  I am "in the pink" myself and having a pretty good time.  "you all" doesn't take in very much now, does it?  It was a great...

H.2. Squadron 1st Cdn Arm'd Bde Camp Debert Nova Scotia c/o C.B.H. 8-10-41 Mrs. John J Larkin St Peters Bay P.E. Island Dear Mom, I am back in camp once more and feeling fine.  We got here an 4:30 Monday afternoon.  It sure was a wet place around town the night before we left..  John Henry...

25-10-40 McNobles Island Halifax N.S. Charlottetown P.E.I Dear Phil, Just a few lines in answer to your letter.  I was home for a few days, was sorry I didn't see you.  How do you like the training?  Six days home are not much good.  We are quarantined in here now for measles.  It is a bad...

My father, Philip Larkin, and his brother, Arthur Larkin, both served in WWII.  My father's family in their infinite wisdom saved all ( or at least a large number) of his letters.  I thought I would share them with this forum.  I hope you enjoy them.  Mary Della Malva (nee Larkin) There are...