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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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16th Reserve, Canadians (Seaford, Sussex) Army P.O. London Jan 30/18

Dear Miss Russell,

You may be wondering where in this wide, wide world I have got to, from the fact of my failure to acknowledge your welcome postcard of Nov. 15 till this late data. It gave me great pleasure and arrived just a day or two before Christmas while I was in our Seaford military hospital being "repaired" after an attack of the Grippe and rather sore throat. Previous to going in I had just completed final musketry course for classification, in which I posed as a first class shot, and maybe the dampness was responsible for bringing in this slight malady. Anyhow they sent me over in a motor ambulance (just as easy to walk!) and I had a soft time of it for ten days. They gave me another joyride back to camp just before Christmas in time to spend it with the boys in camp. For New Years I had six days leave and again went home to Cambridge and surprised the folks by dropping in unaware without sending more than

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

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