(Bristol England)

30 Aug 1917

Friend Fred Tregillus,

They have got me at last,and I am in Good Old Blighty after 13 months of heavy fighting. Lucky old Scotty. I thought I was going to Heaven when the shell Burst. it put me up in the air. It made me think about old Bob Cresswell perpetual motion. I thought it had Blown me all to Bits. A lad beside me got killed and another lost a arm Blown off. I could hear him shouting where is my arm. and I asking him where is my "Arse" I thought it

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