Arthur Douglas Crease Letters, Diaries and Scrapbooks
Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease of Victoria to his brother Lindley Crease and his mother Sarah Crease; instructions for the offensive of July 26, 1917; a regimental notebook, diaries and scrapbook. Learn more.
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BC Archives MS-0055; BC Archives MS-2879
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of the most favoured class for once for these Christmas holidays everything is giving way to the soldiers returning on leave.
At breakfast this morning I found myself beside a strapping young fellow in civilians who was wounded in the left hand in [illegible]
His name I hound was Ridley & on further conversation discovered he was god son of Henry Compton Maunoir & Myra. It seems he was on our immediate right at Courcelette. In London I have stopping at a place where Meg with several other ladies work - called the Officer's Pavilion. It is
BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1916.