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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One of the miracles of the war is to see how quickly things develop behind an advance. Joe & I visited today a place where we were in the line a short time ago. When there no one was allowed out of the trenches in daylight. Now there is a full fledged standard gauge railway station right on top of what had been the Bn H.Q & beside it the farmers had ploughed some acres of land. The surrounding country was covered with permanent camps of buildings of
BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 2 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1917.