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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I was Staff Captain [illegible] towards the last and had a taste of it all but nothing came up to St. Gloria at the 3rd Battle at Ypres for sheer hell & misery & shelling & we were not nearly so well organized as we were at the Somme. We were much more efficient at the staff work & artillery quite different. One felt one was doing something and behind one the ground we had won and we lived in deep [illegible] (at times)
BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 4 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver / Correspondence inward, 1916.