BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 4 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver, Correspondence Inward, 1916.

30th Reserve BattN. C.E.F.

2nd British Columbia RegT

and others who have come over with more recent battalions. By the way, I saw Roy Gill one day but only for a few minutes. He had been in Gallipoli and Salonika and was invalided with dysentery or one of those objectionable posterior troubles. Down here I ran into Elsie Burg[?] (Maclaren that was) and the Bunce girls (the younger one now Mrs. Dean) and Tom Taylor who was over on leave (since wounded, by the way) and I gave them a cheery dinner and dance one night at the Grand in Folkestone. Capt. and Mrs. D. C. Macgregor, Col. and Mrs. A. D. Macrae, Dr. and Mrs. Ewing are all in the locality so there is quite a Vancouver touch about the place. I am billeted at the [illegible] Golf Club (and very comfortable too, thanks!) with Ken Taylor and Bobby Powell of Victoria. In the next day or to I am going over to France but not to stay - only with a draft as far as Havre. As I am still on light duty I have no chance of getting back to the regiment till I am passed fit. Two of the old crowd, Leslie Haines and Fred[?] were over on short leave the other day and we had a cheery reunion of various past and present officers of the 7th at a local hostelry.