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Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys

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(letter head) DOMINION HOTEL VICTORIA B.C. RATES $1.00 PER DAY UP -EUROPEAN PLAN $2.50 PER DAY UP-AMERICAN PLAN STEPHEN JONES, PROP. Victoria, B.C.
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3/ facing left & in good order with guides in proper place & much to his delight & real pleasure I did it in the most correct maner with only one mistake of left turn instead of right which I corrected in his own by ordering platoon will retire, about turn & when they had got to the right place ordered half & another about turn made them dress by the right ordered stand at ease stand easy & then said to the S.M. all present correct which 3 words seem to be much used & when ever used it seems to be all O.K.   We have a dirty little canker spot in our platoon Holmes & Kit Carson & two other U.S. men are not with us except in body & have done much to retard our drill improvement & esprit de corps which I can see is absolutly necessary to get on quickly. The last batch from Cariboo have got us skined all to pieces on drill now & yesterday
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DOMINION HOTEL VICTORIA B.C.
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RATES $1.00 PER DAY UP - EUROPEAN PLAN
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$2.50 PER DAY UP -AMERICAN PLAN
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STEPHEN JONES, PROP. Victoria, B.C.
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facing left & in good order with guides in proper place & much to his delight & real pleasure I did it in the most correct maner with only one mistake of left turn instead of right which I corrected in his own by ordering platoon will retire, about turn & when they had got to the right place ordered half & another about turn made them dress by the right ordered stand at ease stand easy & then said to the S.M. all present correct which 3 words seem to be much used & when ever used it seems to be all O.K.
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We have a dirty little canker spot in our platoon Holmes & Kit Carson & two other U.S. men are not with us except in body & have done much to retard our drill improvement & esprit de corps which I can see is absolutly necessary to get on quickly. The last batch from Cariboo have got us skined all to pieces on drill now & yesterday
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BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 5 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962.  Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Ernest Seeley, 1915 - 1919.

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DOMINION HOTEL VICTORIA B.C.

RATES $1.00 PER DAY UP - EUROPEAN PLAN

$2.50 PER DAY UP -AMERICAN PLAN

STEPHEN JONES, PROP. Victoria, B.C.

facing left & in good order with guides in proper place & much to his delight & real pleasure I did it in the most correct maner with only one mistake of left turn instead of right which I corrected in his own by ordering platoon will retire, about turn & when they had got to the right place ordered half & another about turn made them dress by the right ordered stand at ease stand easy & then said to the S.M. all present correct which 3 words seem to be much used & when ever used it seems to be all O.K.

We have a dirty little canker spot in our platoon Holmes & Kit Carson & two other U.S. men are not with us except in body & have done much to retard our drill improvement & esprit de corps which I can see is absolutly necessary to get on quickly. The last batch from Cariboo have got us skined all to pieces on drill now & yesterday

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