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well we are away from there now. Some place Fred I was there for 7 weeks and I hope never to be there again. The Canadians lost a lot of men there was in a couple of charges never will forget the sight. Fritz will not show fight at all, the cream of his army is gone now. I could tell you some funny stories of the Taking of (Desire trench you would laugh to see them coming to meet you with there hands up and calling Mercy Comrade. They are

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 10 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862-1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from George Gilchrist, 1914-1917.