so far I have crashed only one machine and I must tell you about it. Two weeks ago I started to fly to Long Branch, near Toronto. About an hour out of Camp Borden the engine developed a spiteful disposition so I had to come down . I landed safely in a large field not far south of the town of Aurora about 20 miles north of Toronto. After locating the trouble, which was in the magneto, I had to telephone to the squadron office and tell them where I was and what was wrong. They sent out mechanics in a motor and they fixed the machine. That night we stayed at a farm house nearby. The next morning I started to take off but my propellor hit an unseen hump in the field and broke. The force of the blow broke the bedding of the engine so that the plane was hopelessly out of commission and I had

BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.