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good you take Sgt. Chiswicks horse and come along with me. there was an awful stream of traffic, but we got up at last we could not leave the horse lines till one oclock in the morning it was cold and windy as the duce but say I would stay out all night in a snow storm to see an other sight like that. Well we got there at last got unloaded they were just haveing breakfast. Reed had to go back with an ergent message. so he left me to take the convoy back. when we got back to a place where we could get a good view I rode ahead to find a place to pull of the road as the traffic man would not let us stop on the road. Well I found a dandy right on top of a little knool. So I goes back to get the boys. and just as I gets them up gues a mine. I beat it back for the grand stand. and tuld them I would watch for them. just as as I got up two more went of. the

BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 4 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873 - 1964. Victoria; librarian. / Letters from Bomdardier Albert Greer, 1917.