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Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters

Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-2685

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August 14th 18

Canadian Machine Gun Depôt Seaford, Sussex.

Dear Dugald

What's the latest from 738 Fort Street these days, are you selling lots of lump!? I wonder if you are going to be short of coal in Victoria this winter as we are going to be over here (not that I expect & hope to be in France before we need our huts heated by stoves!) From all accounts it will be pretty uncomfortable for most people, as there is likely to be a great shortage in this country. What price the war news now, things are certainly looking up aren't they? The Hun is certainly getting all he

BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.

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