Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.
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Canadian Machine Gun Depot Seaford Sx
May 25th 18
My dear Father,
I believe the last letter I wrote was to Dugald from the Strand Palace. I know I owe you one so here goes. You & Mother will have to go haves on letters, as one hasn't a great deal of time for writing in camp, so one letter will have to do you both! I was very lucky getting such a decent bit of leave & I must say I enjoyed it thoroughly. Well I came back to this camp last Monday & have since been busy on a Topographical Course (this sounds very fine) but it consists really in Map reading, sketching and use of Prismatic Compass etc. etc. quite interesting & very useful no doubt, but I must say I will be glad to get on to something a little more exciting, such as Gas, Bombing etc. The actual course with the Machine Gun I believe lasts at least 6 weeks, so I'm afraid I don't stand much chance of getting over to France for sometime, as there are so many different courses one has to take, of course one can't expect to go over with out some instruction in these things, but I must
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.