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Well so much for that. You say I know my own plans best about my discharge. My dear, I have no plans, but to stick it out with to the end. There is a lot of talk about men having done their bit, I mean men still physically fit. I don't consider that any man has done his bit as long as he can manage to keep up his end in any capacity. If I took my discharge now I should consider that I had junked it just as much as some that are, now a bye worn

BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 2 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873-1964. Victoria; librarian. / Selected letters and a photograph from Sergeant Harry Octavius Allen, 1917.