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out the pledge I took before I enlisted. It is wonderful to have been spared so long but with the Italian & Russian fiascos staring us in the face it is obvious that the exposure to danger must be much prolonged.

In the meantime I have health & strength & all my faculties.

Birdie writes to say that Dick & Doug Gull are staying at Frilsham which looks like a family reconciliation - a fine thing in these days of dissensions everywhere.

I wonder if my old dream of a finish in

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 3 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1917.