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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has also written & wishes to see me.
If it were convenient I might do so for she amuses me but does not inspire me with respect.
I should rather like to see what she has developed into - a bit snobbish I should think - it wd be fun to pull her leg.
This Army school by the way will take about 6 weeks & is near the sea but is not far enough south to enable one to extract much benefit from the sea. I am quite well except for the cold & cough which nearly everyone in the Battn has. Probably the school will get no of that. This front from being very quiet has become rather busy & we shall not be sorry when our time comes to leave it though I suppose we shall not get anything much better.
There is an entirely new system of battle training being instituted wh. of course I can't indicate.
When we make our next push it will be conducted under these methods I suppose
BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 2 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1917.