Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys
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BC Archives MS-0426
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CANADIAN Y.M.C.A. AND THE CANADIAN WAR CONTINGENT ASSOCIATION WITH THE CANADIAN CONTINGENT ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Do not mention your rank, battalion, Brigade, or the names of places: Expected operations, movement or numbers of troops: Casualties, previous to publication of official list, or make specific reference to the moral or physical condition of troops.
W.T. Tait, Secretary.
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we did not lose a man killed but had a number wounded nine very seriously. The net result was several prisoners including our German officer it is great fun when one of their night attacks take place, and a fellow gets so worked up that he does not seem to care what happens. The fist few minutes are the worst but when the big guns and rifles start going and shells and bombs breaking all around, men shouting and cussing and horses squealing you forget all your troubles and never think where you are till you land back in
BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 7 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Joseph Callanan, 1915 - 1916.