Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys
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| − | We lay near the 67th for a few days on the Same front & I had short chats with a few of the Cariboo Bunch We passed then one night on a famous road. It is a custom among the army when passing another Batt at night to enquire what Batt. some one asked & I heard 67 so | + | We lay near the 67th for a few days on the Same front & I had short chats with a few of the Cariboo Bunch. We passed then one night on a famous road. It is a custom among the army when passing another Batt at night to enquire what Batt. some one asked & I heard 67 so kept a lookout to see if I could see a friend ( it was pretty dark) I just reconised Chester B. long form as he passed & holled hello C. then there was a choros of hello Seelys. It was the Cariboo Bunch (good old 12) Would you please give my respects to Mrs Stone. I am going to write to her soon if I can get time. It is the combination of time & chance to write that is hard to get. I am glad that you 3 old timers & friends P.G.T.B. & F.2.T. have got that quartz. I dont know of any combination I would be better pleased at. I shall continue this letter in another envelope. |
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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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We lay near the 67th for a few days on the Same front & I had short chats with a few of the Cariboo Bunch. We passed then one night on a famous road. It is a custom among the army when passing another Batt at night to enquire what Batt. some one asked & I heard 67 so kept a lookout to see if I could see a friend ( it was pretty dark) I just reconised Chester B. long form as he passed & holled hello C. then there was a choros of hello Seelys. It was the Cariboo Bunch (good old 12) Would you please give my respects to Mrs Stone. I am going to write to her soon if I can get time. It is the combination of time & chance to write that is hard to get. I am glad that you 3 old timers & friends P.G.T.B. & F.2.T. have got that quartz. I dont know of any combination I would be better pleased at. I shall continue this letter in another envelope.
E Selly 489697
BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 5 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Ernest Seeley, 1915 - 1919.