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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and continue their journey that way.
The most intelligent of the German prisoners are very despondent over the war. They say that things can not go on much longer in Germany. The deterioration in the quality of their officers is most marked & is generally emphasized by all prisoners. They have not the same power of command or of enforcing discipline that German officers always used to have. In the Amiens operations a very large percentage of the prisoners were officers. On the first Somme campaign the officers could always be relied on to put up a good fight.
Cities of the line will all have sad histories after the war. Ypres practically destroyed - next Bethune scarcely damaged until this last German advance and now showing the usual results of being within howitzer range - Lens a ruinous gas pit - Arras many times bombarded & subjected to all kinds of shell fire for long periods & now again relieved from all but
BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 4 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1918.