Ellison Family Letters
Letters from Price F., Vernon, Herbert and Albert Ellison of Vernon, B.C., to their mother Mrs. Price Ellison, and their sisters Elizabeth and Ellen. Learn more.
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Y.M.C.A.
On Active Service
WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
Monday Apr 8/18
My Dear Mother
We arrived here last night about supper time, and we haven't done anything today but have a bath which we certainly needed after travelling in the mud and dry box cars.
I am with the 5th C.D.A.C. at present but expect to be moved up to a battery in a week or so. We are just close enough to the line to hear the guns. Yesterday I passed Lawrence MacDonell on
BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 15 / ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. / Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Albert J. Ellison, 1915, 1918.