Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.
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any chance of getting a taxi to take one over in! Well we managed by a great piece of luck to get hold of one it was a "camouflaged " Ford really, not a real taxi but it took the hills in fine style as Fords are known to do, reminded me of course of the "lizzie" I left behind! The sad or rather aggrevating part was that the blighter of a driver would only take us about half way, as he said under the existing regulations re petrol, he wasn't allowed to over step a three mile limit, so we were compelled to walk the rest of the journey! We got here about 3 pm as of course Saturday we work half day in Camp. last night we took in a show "The Ideals" very much like the
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.