chance of getting on it, even though I'm not 19. It once made me feel sick to see a lot of my best friends going and me left behind. The movements of the Battery are very uncertain, our moving orders were cancelled. As things stand we will be guarding chincks for a week or so, and may then be sent to spend the winter in some Eastern town. Nothing is definite these are just rumours from the officers. Well I have given the next man a half hours start on his shift. I am on Head quarters piquet for the night. My duty is to answer the phone a the Brigade orderly tent and not let anybody steal anything. Your old son Vernon.

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 13 ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Vernon Ellison, 1917-1920.