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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-0055BC Archives MS-2879

 

 

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we used to glance at the maps in the paper showing changes in the front line.

How these maps & the changes in them are our very being - it is a most extraordinary thing but just at this moment there is neither a shell nor a bullet coming over our trench though a few minutes ago I was nearly put out of commission by a big shell which exploded very close - The concussion gives one a very peculiar feeling & if it is repeated two or three times is bound to have some effect whether one can disguise it or not.

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1916.

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