C.F.A. Canada C.E.F. QUO FAS PRETORIA DUCUNT D BRIGADE five men who were going into them on guard, but we managed to get them off. Our battery managed to come second. I made or helped make 8 out of the 16 points, which the 68th scraped together. I got 1 first, 2 second, 1 third and came 4th in the mile on a sandy track without any training. there were 20 or more started so 4th wasn't so bad.

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