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One of the miracles of the war is to see how quickly things develop behind an advance. Joe & I visited today a place where we were in the line a short time ago. When there no one was allowed out of the trenches in daylight. Now there is a full fledged standard gauge railway station right on top of what had been the Bn H.Q & beside it the farmers had ploughed some acres of land. The surrounding country was covered with permanent camps of buildings of

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 2 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1917.