go through a good deal more in the way of instruction before we are considered fit for "the line", so for goodness sakes don't be worrying about me, because I am likely to be sweating away at different courses at the Base for sometime to come.

Quite a number of us came over from Seaford on the same draft from our depot Most of them very decent chaps and it is nice that we are all travelling up to our Base together, the majority of them are in the same position as myself, haven't been over before, so I needn't feel so much like the "new boy just arrived at School"! as a matter of fact I'm not by any means one of the last to get over, as I have come across a good many chaps since I've been in England who have been there, some of them the last 2 years, and haven't got any further, so I think they have about as little to be proud of as I have! I haven't dropped Heb a line yet to let him know that I am over, I am do so tonight though the beggar hasn't written to me for months!

BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3

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