Alma Russell Letters
Letters of British Columbia men on active service with Canadian and British Expeditionary Forces, 1914-1918. Learn more.
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Sgt. H. O. Allen 9th C.R.T. (1st Canadian Pioneers) 2 Army P.O. London
Dec. 6th '17
To Mrs. H.O. Allen
I told you with my last that I was going up to the Theater to have my leg straightened. Well I've been! It was found that in spite of all the pulling, my muscles has not stretched enough & the bones were overlapping & had started to knit. Consequently the leg had to be rebroken & pulled into shape by main force. Of course I didn't know any thing about it as I was under Ether, but I knew all about it when
BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 2 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873-1964. Victoria; librarian. / Selected letters and a photograph from Sergeant Harry Octavius Allen, 1917.