Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
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+ | cracked by now, & probably would have come to an untimely end! I only wish I had got over before & I wd feel still better satisfied, however, though I've only been out for a short time, I've seen something of this war & have experienced the sensations of being under fire & I am mighty bucked to be still in the ring & heading for the Rhine. I have hopes we may yet do the Goose Step in Berlin! Who would have thought last March that we would be in this victorious position, those were indeed "blue" days & you remember what little encouragement one could get out of the bulletins at that time! I wonder what about old Ronald now, will he get back to England immediately, I should imagine he would, By Jove it will be a great day for him when he | ||
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+ | BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919. |
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cracked by now, & probably would have come to an untimely end! I only wish I had got over before & I wd feel still better satisfied, however, though I've only been out for a short time, I've seen something of this war & have experienced the sensations of being under fire & I am mighty bucked to be still in the ring & heading for the Rhine. I have hopes we may yet do the Goose Step in Berlin! Who would have thought last March that we would be in this victorious position, those were indeed "blue" days & you remember what little encouragement one could get out of the bulletins at that time! I wonder what about old Ronald now, will he get back to England immediately, I should imagine he would, By Jove it will be a great day for him when he
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.