Transcription Page

Deborah Florence Glassford Letters and Memorabilia

Letters written to Deborah Florence (Leighton) Glassford of Vancouver by men serving overseas, including some cards, programs and memorabilia. Learn more.

*All transcriptions are provided by volunteers, and the accuracy of the transcriptions is not guaranteed. Please be sure to verify the information by viewing the image record, or visiting the BC Archives in person. 

BC Archives MS-0089

Current Page Transcription [edit] [history]

under the land. Well, I said that I would tell you how I felt, not that I had a really rotten time of it & I was not attacked by any enemy but only our own people. I think as far as I could make out at the time that I mainly got frightfully annoyed at being hampered in my movements by our own people and then a mild form of amusement at having got away from him. I do know that I was not frightened at all during the show, as I particularly thought of it at the time, and that I would let you know. The tensions on ones mind and the strain on the eyes on a dark night is so great that it really seemed to come as a relief when any patrol went far as us and one knew then where to look. We had quite a lot of fun out of the man who tried to drop bombs on us as he would keep hanging about till day light so we blew a lot of oil and air overhand which I assumed to be the popular proof that a submarine is junk and then and then cleared off in another direction.

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 3 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1915.

Current Page Discussion [edit] [history]

Image 189 of 582