(when we must get up) till 4 or 415 p.m. when we are free to go up town (3 miles, fare 5 c) but must be in by 10 p.m. (1030 Sat. & Sun.) Passes can be easily got for all night out during the week but week end passes are harder to get as so many ask for them & only 10 percent of the Batt. is allowed to leave at one time. In the morning we usually parade about 815 & do simple drill in platoons (about 50 men) right & left turn form focus & simple marches around the parade grounds (the oval inside race track) there will generally be 10 or 14 party like ours also a pipe band & bugerlers practicing & men [wig?] waging with flags & a company of B.C. horse either practicing tent pegging or cutting the turks head & many sights & sounds strange to all of us, so small wonder if some times our [wits?] are off wool gathering instead of listening to the drill sergent we are well off in that line, all the sergants are men & gentlemen they show great tact & good nature & I am very proud to be a small part of this great army of the King's. May destruction come to all our enemies wether in Germany & Austria or in Barkerville. Bob. Norrie is doing fine not drinking to excess as he did all the way down so that I feared he would

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 5 TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862-1962. Barkerville, miner. Correspondence from Ernest Seeley, 1915-1919.