Deborah Florence Glassford Letters and Memorabilia
Letters written to Deborah Florence (Leighton) Glassford of Vancouver by men serving overseas, including some cards, programs and memorabilia. Learn more.
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eyes and no chance of getting it off. The only time we change our clothes is when we go to a rest camp for a few days.
We have no blankets in the trenches and sleep in our full kit with 150 rounds of ammunition on you, we never take that ammunition off the whole time we are in the trenches, even when in working parties or carrying up the rations at night. A rather funny wound a fellow got last week was when he was performing a certain function of nature, he was sitting down and a bullet hit him behind and went through each side, he gave a yell and we thought that at least he was killed and then we
BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 3 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1915.