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John Haworth Drewry Letters

Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-3140

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The Canadian Pacific Ocean Services Ltd. Managers and Agents for Canadian Pacific Railway Ocean Steamship Lines. The Allan Line Steamship Company Limited.

R.M.S. October 5 1917.

Dearest Mother:-

Here we are about half way across the Atlantic - and no submarines yet. I am afraid you will be expecting my cable about this time; but it will be about four days yet before this letter can start back to you and in the meantime I will have cabled immediately on my arrival so you will hear of my arrival long before this letter reaches you.

There are [illegible] in this convoy, under the sheltering wing of a good old [illegible], and we are steaming slowly along at almost ten knots an hour. When we get

BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.

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