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cracked by now, & probably would have come to an untimely end! I only wish I had [?] over before & I wd feel still better satisfied, however , though I've only been out for a short time, I've seen something of this war & have experienced the sensations of being under fire & I am mighty bucked to be still in the ring & heading for the Rhine. I have hopes we may yet do the Goose Step in Berlin! Who would have thought last March that we would be in this victorious position, those were indeed "blue' days & you remember what little encouragement one could get out of the bulletins at that time! I wonder what about old Ronald now, will he get back to England immediately, I should imagine he would, By Jove it will be a great day for him when he

BC Archives MS-2685 Box 17 File 3

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