Alma Russell Letters
Letters of British Columbia men on active service with Canadian and British Expeditionary Forces, 1914-1918. Learn more.
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new C.O., a Col. Williams of the Middlesex, the plump, red faced hale fellow well met type, a man who can easily put away a bottle a day without turning a hair! I should think he is a very good soldier; time will show. We have finished one tour of duty in the front line trenches and are at present holding half a dozen small forts or keeps just behind, with orders to hang on to the last man in case of attack - not that there's any possibility of that, the Bosch has got his tail too far down to do anything rash!
BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 11 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873 - 1964. Victoria; librarian. / Selected miscellaneous letters and ephemera, 1914 - 1917.