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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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III

Parliament, War Office, the Canadian Pay and Record Office and saw Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square and all the historical and interesting monuments. I saw our well-known streets, Shaftesbury Avenue etc. and all the large printing firms' bldgs., especially the ones we know of. The Bank of England is a long low dirty looking building but at noon the crowd around it and vicinity is wonderful.

I was stopping at the Bath Hotel close to Charing Cross and one night I came back from

BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 15 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873-1964. Victoria; librarian. / Letters from Trooper Joseph Shires, 1915-1916.

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