Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.
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Belgium Nov 20th 18
Hello Pa!
What's on the bulletin board now?! What changes have taken place since I last wrote, it was extraordinary how quickly Germany's downfall came in the end & one can really hardly realize yet that the war is all but finished. We sure did hail them the swine, & I think from all accounts they are going to get what's coming to them in the way of Peace terms. I can just see you chuckling over the Armistice terms, they make grand reading, don't they? I would like to have had a birds eye view of you & Mother when the news came through of Germany's surrender. I
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.