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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I have a nice team and it is great to go galloping across the fields in a cloud of dust.
I suppose Victoria is pretty dead now, but dead or alive it is the best little place in the World. We are all expecting the war to end this year and looking forward to our Xmas dinner at home.
I must close now as "Lights out" has just sounded.
With kindest regards to all the staff, I am Very sincerely yours Gregory T. Yorke.
706245 Driver G.T. Yorke 2nd Section, 5th Divisional Ammunition Column, C.F.A. Witley Camp, Surrey, England
BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 20 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873 - 1964. Victoria; librarian. / Letters from Gregory T. Yorke, [1916] - 1918.