New Address ( Letter head) WESTERN SCOTS BRITISH COLUMBIA 67 Private E. Seeley No 489697 1st Canadian Pioneers Menzies St Drill Hall Victoria Feb 19/16 Dear Fred your last letter of Feb 10th received O. K. Re the Canadian Loan Bonds I sold those bonds as I wanted the cash in hand in case they did. My Bluff worked OIL as you may see by my new address. My offering to pay up to 400$ even would have been the cheapest as I should have been a deserter with all that entails. But I had got a very real dislike to the Leuit in charge of my platoon & in a lesser degree to the Sergent.. The bunch I am with are a click of sailors mostly all the N.C.O.s are sailors with not much knowledge of drill or organization of a military unit. But I knew that befor went in but could make use of my mining experience in getting the transfer The head or O.C. of the unit (it is only a draft of 100 or 150 men) had intended to make me a full Cpl at once