CANADIAN Y.M.C.A. AND THE CANADIAN WAR CONTINGENT ASSOCIATION WITH THE CANADIAN CONTINGENT ON ACTIVE SERVICE

Do not mention your rank, battalion, Brigade, or the names of places: Expected operations, movement or numbers of troops: Casualties, previous to publication of official list, or make specific reference to the moral or physical condition of troops.

W.T. Tait, Secretary.

"Somewhere in Belguim" Feby 2nd 1916

Dear Fred

I got your letter and post cards some time ago but on the square I have been so busy I never had time to answer before. We came out of the trenches last night for a six days rest and I can tell you we needed it as we have just finished a mighty exciting time especially the night before last when an attack was made on the German trenches opposite our position which resulted in a heavy loss to the enemy and caused much excitement all along the line. Fortunately

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 7 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Joseph Callanan, 1915 - 1916.