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Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys

Letters to Frederick James Tregillus from Barkerville men who served in the First World War: Joseph Callanan, J.H. Ellis, George Freeman Killam, George Gilchrest, R. Norris, Mr. and Mrs. Nowosky, John Petterson, Ernest Seeley, N.W. Thompson, George Turner, and John Benjamin Westover. Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-0426

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Y.M.C.A. WITH HIS MAJESTY'S CANADIAN FORCES ON ACTIVE SERVICE FOR GOD, FOR KING, AND FOR COUNTRY

be dismissed the service if he did not quit. Cariboo can be proud of their bunch. I know our Capt is very pleased with us & with him self to have us in his co.

Jim Craig is in Victoria to see his boy Russell who leaves on Sunday next with a Draft of 250 for England. I vollentered 3 times but could not make it & my Sergent told me at last that they wore not putting in good men now but the roudies & weeds as a lot of good men got into the draft at first & to finish it out they worked in all the most cullus so as not to spoil the average of the Batt.

These 250 men are no longer 67th men, but just soldiers, to be attched to any units that may need men when they get to England. I find several old aquaintances in the Batt. including a boy I nursed as a baby in Man. we were very great chums then indeed. Please give my regards to all friends left.

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 5 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Ernest Seeley, 1915 - 1919.

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