Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.
*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.
Current Page Transcription [edit] [history]
7/
Canadian Machine Gun Depôt Seaford, Sussex
service that E has put in, with the D.S.O. too. I must say they do some funny things in the Army. I don't remember Beattie, the officer Father says is taking command. Eric didn't go much on the Willows bunch, from what I can gather, he liked Major McGuire all right and I always did too. The "Pems" will certainly miss Eric very much, its a pity he couldn't have put in the summer while he was out there.
So, Phillipa Holmes has a wee daughter, Eh - its a case of "Good Gracious, God Bless my Soul"! Armine is frightfully bucked at being an aunt, rather amusing! I seem to have been an uncle now for years!
Today, the C.M.Gs had their annual sports meet. I went out this afternoon and watched for a bit, quite an affair, tremendous crowds, but chiefly a khaki crowd! The C.M.Gs cleaned up nearly all the Infantry Reserve BNs in the different events, and they also beat some American team at a "Ball Game" 2-3. Personally I don't care a d-- for baseball, but they seem quite keen about it here. The oval where the games took place was very gay
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.