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26.5.17

Dear Lindley

In my letter to Nell yesterday I mentioned that I had come across Lt Edwin McGregor once known as Alastair Frobisher. Today he called for me in his motor car & took me for a time to call on another Bn where he has a brother-in-law, a Major Thompson a K.C. of Toronto (Thompson & Nellis). The Bn was a place wh interested me very much Zouave Valley although there was not a blade or a leaf of green round the camp.

Major Thompson & the O.C. Colonel Chadwick were both the right sort. McGregor then brought

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