FOR GOD, FOR KING, & FOR COUNTRY

Y.M.C.A. H.M. FORCES ON ACTIVE SERVICE

PATRON Y.M.C.A. NATIONAL COUNCIL H.M.THE KING

Y.M.C.A. PATRON MILITARY CAMP DEPT. H.R.H. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT

Reply to C 443782 Company 54th Stationed at Bramshott Camp Hampshire

Dear Fred

Ive just got 5 mins to catch this mail so I'm writing just to wish you a merry Xmas & to send you our address if the other boys haven't done so everything is all mixed up & it raining like H__ all the time, & mud up to the waist the climate & conditions here has put all the boys on the sick list, the Barkerville bunch are away on leave Mikey is in London & the others @ their respective Homes, now dont kick because this is short if you could see our camp I know you would excuse us kindly remember me to all the boys & the seasons greeting to everybody, kind regards to all the family & all @ the Hotel

yes J.H. Ellis

P.S. other side

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 8 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from John Hugh Ellis, 1915.