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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on you both in the family & outside it, both clients & fellow citizens than continuing to be their stay & support? Their moral & mental support, I mean, in particular.
Are there not thousands who can do and who are ready to do the work you propose for yourself and is there any one who can fill the gap you propose to make? Candidly is not the strongest influence working on your mind just now a desire for change and new surroundings & new interests?
I don't blame you a bit - the monotony and the forcing yourself to do things daily that you dislike & do not feel interested in must be wearing and distasteful to the last degree.
No what is wanted is a stream of young fighting manhood, capable of performing front line
BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 4 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1918.