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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


WRITTEN AT Vernon CAMP 54th BATT. C COMPANY Sept 15 1915

Friend Fred

Just Received your letter This afternoon and was pleased to get one. you were saying in your letter you heard we all got run in a Ashcroft is that some of Murphy BS. There was one and he came from 150 Mile H. a Half Bred. We must have started them at Barkerville. by the names you say have enlisted, good Luck to them. We may meet them on the Battlefield I would like for them to come into our crush. they have stopped recruiting in the 54th. we got inspected by the Duke of Connaught today. A Royal Review the 54th 47th 62nd and Canadians Mounted Rifles. and Army Service Corps it was fine to look at. after it was all over he said it was the finest bunch

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 10 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from George Gilchrist, 1914 - 1917.

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