getting things all mixed up, so I reverted but cheer up I might have a surprise in store for you yet. I think we will be far better off when we are reorginised, you see a mounted reg. is only about half as big as an infantry battalion and it makes it very bad when we relieve a brigade in the trenches.

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 19 / ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. / Price Fearnaught Ellison, correspondence outward.