hard to get it. the assigned pay is from the 1st of April so please keep a tab on it & if it does not come through regularly If you write me a letter stating how your affairs have been so back since we all enlisted and signed it also get some one else to as a witness and I will get a separation allowance put through. We have it coming to us so do not be shy about it. There is no sense in you & Father killing yourselves and

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 13 ELLISON FAMILY, Vernon. Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Vernon Ellison, 1917-1920.