Y.M.C.A.

On Active Service

WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Monday Apr 8/18

My Dear Mother

We arrived here last night about supper time, and we haven't done anything today but have a bath which we certainly needed after travelling in the mud and dry box cars.

I am with the 5th C.D.A.C. at present but expect to be moved up to a battery in a week or so. We are just close enough to the line to hear the guns. Yesterday I passed Lawrence MacDonell on

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 15 / ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. / Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Albert J. Ellison, 1915, 1918.