Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys
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| − | worked out doors, lumbering, prospecting, farming & a few trappers & right there is where I want to state that every guy I have run across who has been a trapper is there one way or another. (Not prejudice.) Then again Colonel Montizambert encourages sports & its up to the P.T. Staff to arrange for them. We had a sports day this afternoon, boxing, a little bayonet exhibition & baseball. They were not as good as usual as we only had a couple of hours in which to get ready but it breaks the time for the men drilling & that's one of the secrets of making a soldier. We had a big night here last Monday (Labour Day). Some of the boys from Camp Lewis were over as I guess you probably | + | For God For King and for Country |
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| + | worked out doors, lumbering, prospecting, farming & a few trappers & right there is where I want to state that every guy I have run across who has been a trapper is there one way or another. (Not prejudice.) Then again Colonel Montizambert encourages sports & its up to the P.T. Staff to arrange for them. We had a sports day this afternoon, boxing, a little bayonet exhibition & baseball. They were not as good as usual as we only had a couple of hours in which to get ready but it breaks the time for the men drilling & that's one of the secrets of making a soldier. We had a big night here last Monday (Labour Day). Some of the boys from Camp Lewis were over as I guess you probably | ||
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| + | BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 1 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862-1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Norman W. Thompson, 1917-1918. | ||
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For God For King and for Country Canada Y.M.C.A. With the Canadian Expeditionary Force On Active Service
worked out doors, lumbering, prospecting, farming & a few trappers & right there is where I want to state that every guy I have run across who has been a trapper is there one way or another. (Not prejudice.) Then again Colonel Montizambert encourages sports & its up to the P.T. Staff to arrange for them. We had a sports day this afternoon, boxing, a little bayonet exhibition & baseball. They were not as good as usual as we only had a couple of hours in which to get ready but it breaks the time for the men drilling & that's one of the secrets of making a soldier. We had a big night here last Monday (Labour Day). Some of the boys from Camp Lewis were over as I guess you probably
BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 1 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862-1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Norman W. Thompson, 1917-1918.