Y.M.C.A. WITH HIS MAJESTY'S CANADIAN FORCES ON ACTIVE SERVICE FOR GOD, FOR KING, AND FOR COUNTRY

WRITTEN AT The Willows CAMP 67 BATT. 3 COMPANY

Oct 6 Victoria 1915

Dear Fred

We have been here 10 days now & all of the Cariboo boys are well & also better still are doing well. Everyone of us is steady & obedient to all orders besides we seem to be about the average in smartness & in picking up the drill. I was out today making one of a picked funeral party (an old vet) which is rather a distinction especially as I was leading guide of the men from our Co.

The boys told me that our sergent magor told them this afternoon that No 3 co (our company) was the smartest in the Batt. & that our platoon had the best material & should in a week or two be the smartest in the Batt. allowing a bit for taffey which sergants give to all recuits that is pretty good talk. I am pretty observant man & I had come to

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 5 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Ernest Seeley, 1915 - 1919.