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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a business way – to have schemed for promotion before leaving Canada and all the rest of it. — by the way you owe me a bit on the [illegible] of the War — I have forgotten what it is though. Tom Hale is over here now — a Major in the Forrestry Corps. — he has charge of a sector down in the French Territory — I am expecting him to blow in every day in his Ford. — He was right behind me for awhile. Pat Toldie Smith, I curse leaving together just before the Vimy show and Tom was right behind us. He has not changed a particle. Goldie is looking after Light Railways. Smith after forward [illegible] and I am Water Supply — We are all back at Corps. now and very comfortable. —One gets very much fed up at times — My own work is
BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 16 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873 - 1964. Victoria; librarian. / Selected letter from Lieutenant Ormond Montgomery Stitt, 1917.