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John Haworth Drewry Letters

Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-3140

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pretty well worn out after the strenuous three weeks here. That is all over now and I shall not have to undergo such labor again in the R.F.C. As I have nearly all the training they can give me here in common with about 30 others, we expect to be given our commissions in a couple of weeks and given our last leave in Canada. I will then have the white band of cadetship off my cap and will put up the stars, and shoulder-strap (on my belt) of a 2nd Lieutenant and will have my photo taken then as an officer of His Majesty's Forces.

If I get enough leave I intend to run down to Hamilton and see Uncle Jim Climie. May go down to Picton, too. Uncle Fred was down there last spring and said the Bristols would like to have

BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.

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