Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.
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Strand Palace Hotel, Strand, London, W.C.2 The Strand Hotel Ltd. Telegrams: "Luxury, Rand, London." Code: Western Union The Strand Hotel Limited. Proprietors of Strand Palace Hotel, Regent Palace Hotel
seems quite heavy enough when one has packed it for any length of time as there is no give to it, being solid metal. We have to sprint with gun, ammunition etc. in the actual mounting for a short distance. We have only one day on the ranges so far. I went to a show last night with another chap from the depot. We took in a piece called the "The Bing boys on Broadway" at the Alhambra. George Robey is the star in it, it was really an excellent show, very funny & music good too, if I have time
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.