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
*All transcriptions are provided by volunteers, and the accuracy of the transcriptions is not guaranteed. Please be sure to verify the information by viewing the image record, or visiting the BC Archives in person.
BC Archives MS-0426
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Somewhere in France
(11th July 1917)
Dear Friend Fred,
I received your letter to hand Dated 7 June and was very pleased to hear from you. that certainly was some letter of Jack Westover he is long winded I will give it to him, he is a Better man than me at writing letters. Chester Boyd, Jim Donnelly, Ginger Pearson, Clyde Kepner and a few more of the Cariboo lads are with us in the 54th now. they Broke the 67th Battn up. Westover and this Crowd are in a good job forestry Department. A Bomb Proof job know Front Line to worry them the only
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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