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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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BC Archives MS-1901

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which he was not sure how he had won but thought it was given him because he was a reformed character and had committed no crimes lately! You would be amused to see the village we are in at present, the real Bairnsfather type, lots of houses or rather bits of houses surrounded with agricultural implements and domestic animals, cows, horses etc. deceased -very! My company headquarters is in a large and I should imagine once prosperous estaminet, it isn't a bad place as there are quite large pieces of the roof left and the holes in the walls have most of them been stopped up with sandbags, the windows of course disappeared long ago the places where they were have canvas nailed over them; furniture, four wire beds, i.e rabbit wire nailed over a wooden frame, a rough wooden table, a form and a brazier which in common with all

BC Archives MS-1901 Box 1 File 11 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873-1964 / Selected miscellaneous letters and ephemera, 1914 - 1917.

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