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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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hold out the summer if he does it is going to cost him and awfull sacrifice for he can win nothing here. I haven't seen Scotty for about three weeks but they are camped just a short way from us Mickey Mercer & him & Tom Brierly & Ellis were all well then Harry Brierly is in England with a bad leg and Geo. Turner is also in England he has to have an operation on his leg and old Kit Carson from Quesnell has been sent back for bad eyesight Percy Foot from Quesnell got his in the foot the other day but I don't know whether he made blighty or not there was a fellow named L.W.

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 6 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from John Benjamin Westover, 1916 - 1917.

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