at 3rd Ypres he did magnificently.

I was sorry when he went.

Old women like Piers and Gagnon[?] did him a lot of harm and they were not soldiers or loyal to him but gossiped out of injured personal [illegible] behind his back. His Regiment suffered more through that than anything.

But they always were and always will be a

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 4 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver / Correspondence inward, 1916.