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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. On Active Service WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

10 Oct 1916

Friend Fred,

Just got your letter today dated 8th Sept and I am pleased to see by it everything is going well with you all in Barkerville and I hear that the Liberals came out on the Top in B.C. and old Fraser got knocked out. that is what we hear out in France but it is not official but I hope it is. I suppose Pat Carey is all Tickled up the Back one of Cariboo Boys has won the Military Medal Wm Muir from Australian Ranch he work for Yorkston not Bad for Caiboo I had a letter from my Sister and she Told me she sent out a

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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