(2) 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.