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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where I have been visiting my father for a few days. London is the dullest place in the world when you have no friends with you. It is very lonesome and yet I am not at all anxious to go back, no one ever is. It is a living round of hardship. I was really going to say something else and I should be quite correct in doing so. It is a war of nerves in our case. I have seen the strongest and biggest chaps go under just through their nerves giving way.
We used to be near a little town called Bailleul and went in at Ploegsteert but have just lately moved up to Ypres so expect to get into something big shortly.
Thanks so much for sending the cigarettes
BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 15 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873-1964. Victoria; librarian. / Letters from Trooper Joseph Shires, 1915-1916.