Kelowna Record
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2016-08-30
issued: 1916-03-09
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note: M^tewa Mtmvh VOL. VIII. NO. 16. KELOWNA BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 9, 19-16.-6 PAGES $1.50 Per Annum A Mom Letters From the Trenches Kelowna Boy in the Thick of the Fighting in France Further letters have been received this, week by a member of the "Record" staff from Private H. Lefevre, a Kelowna boy who writes from "somewhere on God's green earth, I don't know where!" Presumably he is in France, and probably by this time is in the thick of the fighting, now taking place there. "Our battalion,'/ he says in a letter dated Jan. 22nd, "received several boxes of apples from the Okanagan, and any, they were splendid! ^They were the moBt welcome gift l think our battalion ever received, and the boyB sure did enjoy them. I am the only boy in our battalion, so fur as 1 know, from the valley, and so you can guesB I was proud of this gift. They have nick-named me 'Okey' because I told them that was the on,y place where they grew apples .... "We have two boys in our battalion who have, been awarded the "D.C.M." for bravery. One of them ran out under fire and earned in a chum who had been wounded. The other threw himself on a bomb to save a comrade. It was at the Grenade school and one of the boys was throwing a bomb, when he slipped and fell, the lighted bomb falling among a bunch of men standing around. There , was no time to pick it up and get it out of the way. This fellow seeing this threw himself upon it so it would not hit the rest. He got wounded in the chest and arm but he will live all right. One of the other follows got his leg blown oft". It was the bravest deed any man could ever do, I think, but as it was not in the firing line, he could not .get a V. C. . . . "1 guess you folks over there aro all talking about the war being over toon and the boys in Kelowna saying they will not get over here before the finish. You tell them from me they will see all they want to eee and maybe just a little bit more before they have finished. "P.S.���Since writing you this…
note: Titled The Orchard City Record from 1908 to 1911-11-16. Titled Kelowna Orchard City Record from 1911-11-23 to 1915-01-14. Titled Kelowna Record from 1915-01-21 to 1920-09-30 Print Run: 1912-1920 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Kelowna (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0180823
language: English
lat: 49.8880556
long: -119.495556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Kelowna B.C. : John Leathley
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