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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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FOR GOD FOR KING AND FOR COUNTRY

CANADA Y.M.C.A.

WITH THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE ON ACTIVE SERVICE

c/o GPO Vancouver Jan 21/18

Dear Fred

I have been here in Van. since a week ago to night. I did not write before as I expected perhaps to have something to say as to what the Army was going to do with me. I have not yet been up for board but expect I shall have no trouble getting my discharge. The army here does not appear to have a very good system Lots of men are at work in Civies clothes earning good money & they are still on the army pay roll & drawing severation & patriotic money. These are usually the men who have learnt that by whining & telling a poor story they get prefered treatment. The same men often never saw the Front or even France & some never left B.C. The man who like myself did in a quiet way good service at the front will not stoop to whine or seek these favours & thus we get to a very great extent the worst of it

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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