Erroll Pilkington Gillespie Letters
Letters from from Erroll Pilkington Gillespie to his family. Learn more.
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ourselves, at least this is as it seems to an ignoramous like myself. That smooth talk from Wilson is all very fine, but I think there's something behind it all. He's out to feather the United States' nest! We listen to him far too much, one who was "too proud to fight" for three years - makes me sick! Now he is trying to appear as the hero! Perhaps I'm hitting him a bit hard but I've just been reading a piece on the Freedom of the Seas and its annoying and ridiculous to see their idea of building the strongest navy in the world. I think they'll have to go "Some"! Well we are here in the same old spot, but we expect to got in about a weeks time to La Havre. This will be a decided step nearer towards getting to England. We are going to Bramshott Camp. The
BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867 – 1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917 – 1919.