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Arthur Douglas Crease Letters, Diaries and Scrapbooks

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on the skill of the pilot though sometimes in a two seater an observer will get off all right when his pilot has been killed in the air.  I am glad to see that the efforts to prevent waste are being taken up energetically.  It has been accepted as too general a fact that the waste of war is inevitable.  Some is, of course, but an immense amount is not & that is being generally recognized & thereby millions of pounds are being saved.  It was Joe Bridgman who first pointed out what a large amount of rubber broken off tyres lies wasting on the roads.  Sandbags make another item.  It costs £10 a night in sandbags to distribute rations to a Bn & those bags were practically never used again.

Well I must get on with my work now.

Do learn old chap the prevention of waste of your own powers & energy.  You do recognize how extremely valuable they are.  If I alone were deprived of them the loss would seem unbearable.

Your loving brother

Arthur

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 4 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1918.

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on the skill of the pilot though sometimes in a two seater an observer will get off all right when his pilot has been killed in the air. I am glad to see that the efforts to prevent waste are being taken up energetically. It has been accepted as too general a fact that the waste of war is inevitable. Some is, of course, but an immense amount is not & that is being generally recognized & thereby millions of pounds are being saved. It was Joe Bridgman who first pointed out what a large amount of rubber broken off tyres lies wasting on the roads. Sandbags make another item. It costs £10 a night in sandbags to distribute rations to a Bn & those bags were practically never used again.