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are none better when it comes down to the actual work, though he may not have landed any decorations yet I'm sure he has done as much good work as many who have & I haven't met any chaps yet that are as keen to get back into the thick of things in France as he is, & I have spoken to a good many. He was simply fed to the hilt with his East Africa trip & was exceedingly bucked to get back to this country again.

BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.