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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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and I am sorry to say that Jim Murphy died in hospital from a shrapnel wound in the kidneys and Billy Fletcher that used to work in the Barkerville hospital was wounded and has gone back to Canada & a fellow by the name of Louis Jackson from Quesnell was wounded and is still in hospital in England but is getting along fine Walter. Archie & Chester Boyd are all well and are in the same platoon so myself & Norrie & Scobie we have had only about two hundred or a little over casualitys so far have been very lucky Charlie Howry from Stanley & Ed Sandholm are making it fine also. Well Fred we have lots of sight seeing but I would rather look at old Canada right now than any place I know of and all the rest of us are of the same opinion all we see is gruesome side of it and it is sure hard work

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 6 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from John Benjamin Westover, 1916 - 1917.

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