vermin, & I may say I picked a few undesirables up simply cant help it. You remember I used to pick a few sharp ticks up at Shearing time - well I would have has soon have them on me as these other things! However, its all in the game & I haven't been worried by them very much as yet!! Nuff said -- Well Pa as I said we are comfortable housed in Billets in a town that we have just relieved from the hands of the Hun, we advanced too rapidly for him and he was unable to take all the Civil population with him, like he has done in all of the villages before we were the first troops in the village bar a few

BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.