Ellison Family Letters
Letters from Price F., Vernon, Herbert and Albert Ellison of Vernon, B.C., to their mother Mrs. Price Ellison, and their sisters Elizabeth and Ellen. Learn more.
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For God, For King & For Country
Y.M.C.A H.M. Forces on Active Service
Patron Y.M.C.A. National Council H.M. The King
Patron Military Camp Dept. H.R.H. Duke of Connaught
Reply to Company Bat. Regt. Stationed at 1915
I might as tell you about them rum jars. They are fired from some kind of trench mortar and are the size of a small nail keg and filled with high explosives. If one of these lands near you it is all up or as they say over here napoo. You can see them coming and the main thing is to make our self scarce. It is great to see the fellows watching for them rising from fritz's trench and judging the best way to run. Fritz has got lots of funny things he sends over. Minewurfers are something like rum jars only bigger and dumb bells that you can neither hear nor see coming. But when we get our mortars working is when fritz get his. With
BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 30 ELLISON FAMILY, Vernon. Robert Main, correspondence inward, 1916.