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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rare in France but with careful planning green slopes lovely vistas and above all by the varied nature excellent grouping and fine growth of the trees. In this park place is a monument to Bleriot, a native, for flying the Channel on 27th July 1909. The air services has gone a long way since then. You will remember he used a monoplane which is now practically an extinct type.
we have now small light scouts with 250 horsepower strong enough to stand the pace of 3000 miles an hour that it attains in its dives. When I went through the town it happened to be almost deserted. A prowling cat, a flitting owl and gossamer threads across the streets emphasized the loneliness.
There were traces of German occupation everywhere of course but they kept the town clean and in good order so long as they thought they could keep it. They had posted up on each house a lit of the inhabitants with their ages & other particulars & also the work to which they were assigned. Every man, woman & child had a number. There were also notices in German & French ordering the people to accept at par the bills or notes issued by the Germans in the particular commune
BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 4 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1918.