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having been learnt it is regarded as indispensable for its special work, i.e. front line & attack. No doubt you know that the guns supplied from Canada & USA are not allowed to be fired but are considered fit only for instruction. The BSA factory weapon is a much finer affair. It is not generally known that it is a Belgian weapon & that the Boche has plenty of them in consequence - what duties this instruction will lead me to I can hardly say.

The position of the Bn M G Offr is now vacant

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1916.