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they gave me a good welcome. As soon as I am a gunner I shall try to get across there. The hospitals and ambulances are kept frightfully busy day and night here so I guess there is a continual stream going out and coming in, only one straight from Canada cannot realize that England is at War. All we saw of the navy was two or three Destroyers at Plymouth fussing in and out of the harbour, and two aeroplanes flying over our camp here / no Zepplins yet!!

Please accept this letter in pencil and let the other fellows have the news as I have scores more letters to write and cannot (do) them individually Remember me to Bessie and all the others. I hope to visit your home when I come back!!!

Let me tell you and everybody else that from now on I am a Canadian and a booster for Victoria and its climate. Me for Canada as soon as I am out of this business no England or its towns or ways for me, give me good old Victoria.

Well goodbye ---, old boy. Write soon, and a lengthy one at that. See they are having Compulsion here, wonder if Canada will line up? From your sincere chum,

(Signed) Bert. (Scholefield)

BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 14 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873 - 1964. Victoria; librarian. / Selected items, Ethelbert and Herbert Scholefield, no date and 1916.