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.

The weather here lately has been mighty snappy and it takes all the pleasure out of sleeping in the trenches. Many the time I wished I had a four point Hudson Bay blanket over me but no such luck. This thing cannot finish to soon for me as I have had enough to do me for some time. Soldiering is alright on paper but the real stuff is a bit unhealthy. I do not see how any of us are going to come out of this affair alive but someone has to come back to tell the story but who it will be is hard to say yet. I have

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