August 14th 18

Canadian Machine Gun Depot Seaford Sussex.

Dear Dugald

What's the latest from 738 Fort Street these days, are you selling lots of lump!? I wonder if you are going to be short of coal in Victoria this winter as we are going to be over here (not that I expect & hope to be in France before we need our huts heated by stoves!) From all accounts it will be pretty uncomfortable for most people, as there is likely to be a great shortage in this country. What price the war news now, things are certainly looking up aren't they? The Hun is certainly getting all he

BC Archives MS-2685 Box 17 File 3

OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867-1920. Victoria; lawyer. Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917-1919.