Arthur Douglas Crease Letters, Diaries and Scrapbooks
Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease of Victoria to his brother Lindley Crease and his mother Sarah Crease; instructions for the offensive of July 26, 1917; a regimental notebook, diaries and scrapbook. Learn more.
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BC Archives MS-0055; BC Archives MS-2879
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the news that Zepp. bombs had killed 14 men in this camp. However today things are brighter & the weather is lovely, the air full of skylarks & hedges with other singing birds.
We are on an upland almost within sight of the sea near Dover whose beach lights we see at night -
We are in fields of long green grass, a few copses about & the hedges white with hawthorn - Another very unpleasant incident with Twigg yesterday in which we were all concerned & a very bad night so far as sleep was concerned give my letter a doleful turn I know but things are not so bad as they sound
BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1916.