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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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is all right. but I am afraid as the 54th got a awful cutting up. at the last Big Battle at Ypres I suppose you heard all about it by this. When I do go back, I will not be able to get back to my old Battn so I will take the 72nd Highlander of Vancouver but will make a awful stab to get to the 54th they are getting all there Drafts from the East. as the men from the West are very scarce. I was sorry to hear about the Death of West House give his mother, sisters and Brother my sympathy, as

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 3 TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862-1962. Barkerville, miner. Correspondence from George Gilchrist, 1914-1917.

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