Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys
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| − | us, and not content with | + | us, and not content with "strafing" us there, he would shell our dugouts while we were resting in the daytime. I was at Ypres and Poperinghe two or three times and the first place is pretty well demolished and the latter placed has been shelled quite a lot, at Dickebusch there's only a few houses standing but they are all knocked "galleywest" and crooked. St Eloi is flat now and grass growing over it. |
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| − | + | We came out from there and had a week or ten days march (called it a rest) well we did rest at St Omar for four days) and then to the Somme. | |
| − | daytime. I was at Ypres and | + | |
| − | Poperinghe two or three times and | + | We went into camp just in front of La Boiselle wood about a mile and a half from Contal maison five miles back from Fritz's front line, had to do all our work at night and walk to our trenches about four and a half miles from line, had to do all our little bit I suppose you have heard that we were made into a Pioneer Battation and attached to the 4th Division Canadians. |
| − | the first place is pretty well | + | |
| − | + | BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 2 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862-1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from George F. Turner, 1916-1917. | |
| − | has been shelled quite a lot, | + | |
| − | at Dickebusch there | + | |
| − | houses standing but they are all | + | |
| − | knocked | + | |
| − | St | + | |
| − | over it. | + | |
| − | We came out from | + | |
| − | had a week or ten days march | + | |
| − | (called it a rest) well we did rest | + | |
| − | at St Omar for four days) and | + | |
| − | then to the Somme.We went | + | |
| − | of La Boiselle wood about a mile | + | |
| − | and a half from Contal maison | + | |
| − | five miles back from Fritz | + | |
| − | line, had to do all our work at | + | |
| − | night and walk to our trenches | + | |
| − | about four and a half miles from | + | |
| − | line, had to do all our little bit | + | |
| − | I suppose you have heard that | + | |
| − | we were made into a Pioneer | + | |
| − | and attached to the 4th | + | |
| − | Division Canadians. | + | |
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us, and not content with "strafing" us there, he would shell our dugouts while we were resting in the daytime. I was at Ypres and Poperinghe two or three times and the first place is pretty well demolished and the latter placed has been shelled quite a lot, at Dickebusch there's only a few houses standing but they are all knocked "galleywest" and crooked. St Eloi is flat now and grass growing over it.
We came out from there and had a week or ten days march (called it a rest) well we did rest at St Omar for four days) and then to the Somme.
We went into camp just in front of La Boiselle wood about a mile and a half from Contal maison five miles back from Fritz's front line, had to do all our work at night and walk to our trenches about four and a half miles from line, had to do all our little bit I suppose you have heard that we were made into a Pioneer Battation and attached to the 4th Division Canadians.
BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 2 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862-1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from George F. Turner, 1916-1917.