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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. FOR GOD, FOR KING,& FOR COUNTRY.Y.M.C.A. H.M. FORCES ON ACTIVE SERVICE

Reply to C Company 54th Stationed at Bramshott. Camp Hants England

20 May 1916

Friend Fred

You will be thinking I have forgotten to answer your letter I got word from my mother saying she got the preemption papers All right. thank you very much Fred. I will gin you up when I come back to Barkerville. You see by the address we are still in England expecting every day to move to France I am getting sick of this the same old thing every day. this is some hot country. the sun will melt you a lot Better that Rain. Fred if I

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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