Walter Draycott’s Great War Chronicle
North Vancouver Museum & Archives
Arr. Medicine Hat early morning. Get card of welcome & a few apples.
Arr. Calgary Sunday 10.30 am. Leave @ 11.10 am. Only a few people on platform. Same cool reception. No gifts, no cards of welcome. Glum surly faces. Arr. Revelstoke 10 pm. Ladies give apples & cigarettes & are very amiable. They chat with the boys & wish them good luck.
Snowing on the mountains but on reaching Medicine Hat the snow disappeared & there had been a hard frost.
The British Destroyer “Tiger” is sunk by a submarine of the Germans.
The Prairie is a change to the Tall Timbers of B.C.
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