so early when we sleep at home. We get from Sat. noon till Monday 6:45 AM off every weekend if we are not on picket. When you are on picket you must have to be down at the barns from 5p.m. till 3a.m. the next day. Your duties are washing round the barns, feeding the horse, cleaning the stables, etc. Bert is on to-morrow. There are other fatigues also such as cook house (peeling spuds, washing pots), barracks orderly (sweeping out the place), Quarter Master (packing wood & in the storeroom ) & police. On police duty you are responsible for what happens from 5pm. till 5am. (turn out the lights, shut the doors and open them.)

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