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Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys

Letters to Frederick James Tregillus from Barkerville men who served in the First World War: Joseph Callanan, J.H. Ellis, George Freeman Killam, George Gilchrest, R. Norris, Mr. and Mrs. Nowosky, John Petterson, Ernest Seeley, N.W. Thompson, George Turner, and John Benjamin Westover. Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-0426

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CETS Church of England Temperance Society

DIOCESES OF CANTERBURY & ROCHESTER

OFFICES: 64 BURGATE, CANTERBURY. Telephone 14x Secretary: Rev. C.F. TONKS. BUSINESS MANAGER: MR. JOHN L. FLEMING.

In conjunction with the Church of England Soldiers' and Sailors' Institutes. PATRON: HIS MAJESTY THE KING PRESIDENTS: THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. THE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER.

& I know I did the proper thing & the only thing for any other proper minded man to do. I would not ask the worst hun I ever knew or Lorum Muller nor would you ask that C.W. Grain be put through the degrading & soul sapping experience I have gust gone through for Old England. I shall never again be as good an Englishman as I have been. Nothing but the fact that I am still eager & keen to help beat the enemy made me submit quietly & still makes me carry on & also the certainty that it is the bigest thing to do leaves me still a willing British Soldier. I can say that in my nearly 3 years soldering I have never done a single thing to bring discredid on the uniform I have worn or a thing that I would mind You or my sisters or any other

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 5 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Ernest Seeley, 1915 - 1919.

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