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Deborah Florence Glassford Letters and Memorabilia

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men as there must be in Vancouver, you'd simply jump into my arms & smother me with kisses, if I returned just now -  Its jolly rought on you poor old girl - Honestly though, I really would like to drop in & have a long chat with just now, & I couldn't lecture you one bit dear old girl.  We've had some awfully wise chats, in those old times, when things were going well haven't we Dodie dear? Though you never took my advice when I tried to reform you, but you always listened most attentively [illegible].
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I don't think I told you that I went over to France taking charge of a draft of men consigned to the Front - did I?  Well I did, & had quite an amazing time - There was a Colonel (Canadian) also conducting a draft on the same train to Southhampton & he & I got quite chummy together.  He was a friendly old [illegiible].
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Our lunch consisted of tough chicken legs Z& stale [illegible] in lunch baskets & you really ought to have seen the old boy gnaw his chicken leg - held it in both hands & gnawed it, then when he had sucked it clean he tossed the bone of the window - didn't seem to have any use for such  trash or knife & force or plate. 
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It must we chuckle to think what an English officer would have said if he'd seen him & just fancy he was a Colonel.  Couldn't [illegible] Kings English , & hadn't the foggiest notion of Military matters., & that old fool will be put in charge of 1000 lives in France later on.  Oh it makes me savage to think of it.  There are such a lot of similarly ignorant uneducated [illegible] willing about as Brigadiers, Colonel & Majors, &  none of them have the slightest inclination to inform their [illegible] or fit themselves for the position of [illegible] reported in them.  Never do they think of the [illegible]
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BC Archives, MS-0089, Box 1, File 4
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GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton).  Vancouver.
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Correspondence inward, 1916

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men as there must be in Vancouver, you'd simply jump into my arms & smother me with kisses, if I returned just now - Its jolly rought on you poor old girl - Honestly though, I really would like to drop in & have a long chat with just now, & I couldn't lecture you one bit dear old girl. We've had some awfully wise chats, in those old times, when things were going well haven't we Dodie dear? Though you never took my advice when I tried to reform you, but you always listened most attentively [illegible].

I don't think I told you that I went over to France taking charge of a draft of men consigned to the Front - did I? Well I did, & had quite an amazing time - There was a Colonel (Canadian) also conducting a draft on the same train to Southhampton & he & I got quite chummy together. He was a friendly old [illegiible].

Our lunch consisted of tough chicken legs Z& stale [illegible] in lunch baskets & you really ought to have seen the old boy gnaw his chicken leg - held it in both hands & gnawed it, then when he had sucked it clean he tossed the bone of the window - didn't seem to have any use for such trash or knife & force or plate.

It must we chuckle to think what an English officer would have said if he'd seen him & just fancy he was a Colonel. Couldn't [illegible] Kings English , & hadn't the foggiest notion of Military matters., & that old fool will be put in charge of 1000 lives in France later on. Oh it makes me savage to think of it. There are such a lot of similarly ignorant uneducated [illegible] willing about as Brigadiers, Colonel & Majors, & none of them have the slightest inclination to inform their [illegible] or fit themselves for the position of [illegible] reported in them. Never do they think of the [illegible]

BC Archives, MS-0089, Box 1, File 4 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver. Correspondence inward, 1916