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