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after the war is over, he will be nothing but a yellow dog. I believe my Mother would have never spoken to me again if I had not come.

My young sister has lost her man after winning the D.S.O. and she just had a son on the 17th of this month.

I have lost 7 cousins in the France and the Dardanelles.

Gordon is in great form and sends you all the best of love and hopes you are behaving. How is the "Castle" going in these low times. Hope well.

The rain here is fearful and of course the trenches get full of mud and you are mud to the

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 3 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1915.