other officers for the use of it, if we went back by Paris. Unluckily we did not.

We first of all went into the trenches, a portion of one of our companies at a time with a company of the regulars. Those trenches were fairly good. Not too wet & the dugouts for both men and officers not too bad. After the sort of try out they gave us, they, that is the authorities, decided the Canadians were all right, so we have been given a bit of time of our own to hold. We ourselves, are four days in the trenches & four days out.

The trenches. Pretty hard to describe. Originally trenches which were flooded out now partly breastwork, partly trenches. Where

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 3 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver / Correspondence inward, 1915.