Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys
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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
Oct 19th 1915
Dear Friend Fred
We have not got away yet. but we are waiting on word to move any day. a Draft of the 54th went away on Sunday night. 10 Oclock for England. Fred I am sending on a picture of the 54th Batt. I have marked all the Barkerville Boys with a pin. the Hole is on There Body so you can hold it to the light and you will see us Micky Mercer is on The Front Row. a Drummer. and the two holes close together is Harry Brierley on Top and Charlie Evens the Bottom. Ellis below them. I am on the Right Hand side of them. and Tom Brierley is on the very Top. Machine Gun Section. I have shaved the upper off again what did you Think of the other picture PC size I sent on
BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 10 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from George Gilchrist, 1914 - 1917.