Alma Russell Letters
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Copy of a Letter from Lieut-General Sir Julian Byng, K.C.B.
To Lieut-General W.J.H. Holmes, D.S.O., Commanding 48th Battalion, 3rd Canadian Pioneers, B.E.F. France
May 17th, 1917.
Dear Colonel:–
Now that it has been definitely decided to break up your Battalion, I should like to let you know much all the good work that they accomplished has been appreciated. The high opinion I formed of them in the Salient and on the Somme has been more than upheld by their devotion to duty at Mt. Vimy.
Though the Battalion has ceased to be a unit in the Corps, I feel sure that all ranks will continue to gain the expressions of praise which have always been bestowed on them and will help their new formations in maintaining the traditions of the Canadian Corps.
Yours sincerely
(Signed)
J. Byng.
BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 7 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873 - 1964. Victoria; librarian. / Selected letters to and from Lieutenant-Colonel William Josiah Hartley Holmes, 1917.