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Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys

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than one hundred and fifty yds away from them and we can hear them speaking and singing very plainly. in fact they shouted out one night. "Come over 29th and we will show you how to fight" or something like that, to tell the truth I did not wait long enough to hear the whole conversation as I did not think it a very healthy place to linger about We are in billets now having what they call a rest, some rest believe me, packing up ammunition to the firing line etc. We work on a sort of schedule here, few days in front line, few in reserve trenches and five resting. The trenches are not so bad, except
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than one hundred and fifty yds away from them and we can hear them speaking and singing very plainly. In fact they shouted out one night. "Come over 29th and we will show you how to fight" or something like that, to tell the truth I did not wait long enough to hear the whole conversation as I did not think it a very healthy place to linger about We are in billets now having what they call a rest, some rest believe me, packing up ammunition to the firing line etc. We work on a sort of schedule here, few days in front line, few in reserve trenches and five resting. The trenches are not so bad, except
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BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 7 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962.  Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Joseph Callanan, 1915 - 1916.

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than one hundred and fifty yds away from them and we can hear them speaking and singing very plainly. In fact they shouted out one night. "Come over 29th and we will show you how to fight" or something like that, to tell the truth I did not wait long enough to hear the whole conversation as I did not think it a very healthy place to linger about We are in billets now having what they call a rest, some rest believe me, packing up ammunition to the firing line etc. We work on a sort of schedule here, few days in front line, few in reserve trenches and five resting. The trenches are not so bad, except

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 7 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Joseph Callanan, 1915 - 1916.