Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.
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Canadian Machine Gun Depôt Seaford, Sussex
same time, or rather 3 of them did & the others a couple of days later. Your 3 letters were dated as follows, July 6th, 10th, & 16th & father's were July 11th & 18th. Also got a wire one from the Commander July 9th written from Glenairley which I shall try & answer shortly. Parcels too have been arriving in great shape, a most exiting one arrived the other day, containing two large slabs of excellent chocolate & a tin of the famous "qinch" most acceptable, & my very best thanks to you both for sending such a nice "plesan". Uncle Ted's maple sugar is A No.1. I gave Florence a slab of it
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.