3 CANADA BRAMSHOTT CAMP< LIPHOOK, Hants. cent back that he put out. $1000 seems rediculous even on these terms. Soldiering in Canada is a joke compared to the hand out over on this side. The disciplene is something fierce. I thought when I had said good bye to Canada I had seen the last of button cleaning and all the rest of that but over here we have to dress up every morning neater and cleaner than we used to for walking out at home. And the Lord help who gets caught in wrong. The grub is fierce and not over abundant either. There is a canteen in connection to the mess room and if it wasnt for this we would be pretty badly off sometimes. We can get canned fruit, sardines

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 30 ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. Robert Main, correspondence inward,1916.