Belgium Nov 20th 1918

Hello Pa!

What's on the bulletin board now?! What changes have taken place since I last wrote, it was extraordinary how quickly Germany's downfall came in the end & one can really hardly realize yet that the war is all but finished. We sure did hail them the swine, & I think from all accounts they are going to get what's coming to them in the way of Peace terms. I can just see you chuckling over the Armistice terms, they make grand reading, don't they? I would like to have had a birds eye view of you & Mother when the news came through of the Germany's surrender. I

BC Archives MS-2685 Box 17 File 3

OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867-1920. Victoria; lawyer. Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917-1919.