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

to that but when they are hit by shell I will not describe the effect, you get splattered all over with bits of human bodies. You can not knock the [?good] spirits out of our bunch they just don't care a damn. The other day the Germans were shelling us with gas shells which fell behind us one one of the fellows stood up and yelled across at them "You blank blank Blind Bastards can't see the Blank Blank Trench". Dearest I have never in my life been so fit and well and this is really life.

God help the man who can and will [?and] come out after