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stick bombs & rifles - all the shelling nearly was on support lines & there was plenty of it there.

The news from home seems to be fairly good.

I have letters from you & Nell & mother. Mother notwithstanding her obviously failing strength is still wonderful.

Love to them all. I hope Fowkes & Miss Gore are the better for their holidays & that it did not rain all the time at Sol Duc & Cowichan Lake.

Your affectionate brother

Arthur

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 3 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1917.