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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Sund Dec 24 Lovely day. To church at Carleton. After lunch walked over to Caistor Old Hall to see Con. Found Cecil in bed. Hudson Gurney & Rosskell there - 9 miles
Mon Dec 25 The first Christmas spent at Carleton for 27 years. Wet - Early service & matins. Walked with Jack & Watts to Hethelthorn. Charades before dinner & quiet evening.
Tues Dec 26 Walked about the place with a gun & Cecil & Con having come over to lunch, with the latter round Mulbarton Com.
Wed Dec 27 Country beautiful with hoar frost esp tower Green. Jess drove me to Wymondham. Lunched at Temple lunch room. Took whole family except Nancy who had measles & Maria Matthews to Kingsway theatre to see
BC Archives, MS-2879 Box 82 File 2 / CREASE FAMILY / Diary of Arthur Douglas Crease, 1915 - 1917.