Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
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July 19th 1918 C.M.G.D. Seaford SX | July 19th 1918 C.M.G.D. Seaford SX | ||
My dear Father | My dear Father | ||
| − | Here are a couple of match box covers I happened to pick up the other day, they have the M.G. badge on one side,& the flags of the Allies are rather neat. I hope they may be of more use at Highwood, than they would be over here, at the present time one would never have a box to put in them! Today I had to light my pipe at the stove in the kitchen of the officer's mess; so you can understand how hard up we are for matches! You will notice I have enclosed them in a rather an ill chosen box, & at the first you may wonder who the deuce is sending you | + | Here are a couple of match box covers I happened to pick up the other day, they have the M.G. badge on one side,& the flags of the Allies are rather neat. I hope they may be of more use at Highwood, than they would be over here, at the present time one would never have a box to put in them! Today I had to light my pipe at the stove in the kitchen of the officer's mess; so you can understand how hard up we are for matches! You will notice I have enclosed them in a rather an ill chosen box, & at the first you may wonder who the deuce is sending you Germicidal soap! The only thing though I could find to put them in. Will be writing |
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| + | BC Archives MS-2685 | ||
| + | Box 17 | ||
| + | File 3 | ||
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| + | OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867-1920. Victoria; lawyer. | ||
| + | Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917-1919. | ||
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July 19th 1918 C.M.G.D. Seaford SX My dear Father Here are a couple of match box covers I happened to pick up the other day, they have the M.G. badge on one side,& the flags of the Allies are rather neat. I hope they may be of more use at Highwood, than they would be over here, at the present time one would never have a box to put in them! Today I had to light my pipe at the stove in the kitchen of the officer's mess; so you can understand how hard up we are for matches! You will notice I have enclosed them in a rather an ill chosen box, & at the first you may wonder who the deuce is sending you Germicidal soap! The only thing though I could find to put them in. Will be writing
BC Archives MS-2685 Box 17 File 3
OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867-1920. Victoria; lawyer. Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917-1919.