C.F.A. CANADA C.E.F. QUO FIS GLORIA DUCUNT D BRIGADE sounding the alarm was more exciting than the fire. The battery fired their first shot on Thursday. We were rolled out of bed at 4 o'clock. The range is about five miles from camp. All the officers with red trimmings were around examining everything. I am not on a gun crew but was a couple of hundred yards in the rear. The weather is fine. It is not very hot and rains every now and again

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