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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26.5.17
Dear Lindley
In my letter to Nell yesterday I mentioned that I had come across Lt Edwin McGregor once known as Alastair Frobisher. Today he called for me in his motor car & took me for a time to call on another Bn where he has a brother-in-law, a Major Thompson a K.C. of Toronto (Thompson & Nellis). The Bn was a place wh interested me very much Zouave Valley although there was not a blade or a leaf of green round the camp.
Major Thompson & the O.C. Colonel Chadwick were both the right sort. McGregor then brought
BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 2 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1917.