We are camped on one of the battlefields of the last Balkan War and I have picked up several [relics?] in shape of pieces of shells [etc.?] [in haste?] -- [Sarf?]

Lots of Red X ships in hospital as lots of cases of frost bite etc are coming down. Still I am 'tuff' so theres no cause to worry.

BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 2 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867-1920. Victoria; lawyer. Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1915-1917.