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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France
3 Oct 1916
My dearest Mother
I know that I owe you a letter but then I also know that we understand each other so well that letters are hardly necessary. I have been miraculously preserved almost every day from great dangers so that now during a storm of shell fire I feel that if there is work for me to do I shall be given time to do it in and that if my work is finished there is no object in my staying here longer. This war is a wonderful thing - most wonderfully horrible always but at times bringing out evidence of divine character
BC Archives, MS-2879 Box 69 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Selected letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his mother, Sarah Crease, 1916 - 1918.