Letters From Vincent

France Dear Grandma, I am sending you a couple of French postcards and a letter just to let you know, though I haven’t written, that I am still thinking of you. I hope you are feeling well and able to get around as much as ever. Your eyesight I hope is not bothering you. I am now at a training school back of the front line learning how to handle a machine gun, so you see our training never ceases. I have been here about a week and am returning to my battalion tomorrow or the

Dear Mother & Father, You will probably be thinking that I have been neglecting writing but if I haven’t been writing I have always been thinking of you. We do not get regular times to write. We may find time to attend to these things and then it might not occur again for a week or so. However, I will try and write oftener. It takes such a long while to get an answer to a letter that one is adept to become impatient. We are getting miserable weather here now. It rains continu

My address if you have not already got it France 18th Battalion B.E.F. 4th Brigade II Division ℅ Army Post Office London Dear Mother & Father, Well I have been expecting some word from you but I suppose my mail is being held up at the 39th battalion and they will likely forward it on when it becomes a nuisance to them. I received a very welcome letter from Jack while I was in the trenches so you can see the wonderful system they have over here. I suppose he got an opportunity

France Dear Mother and Father, Well you will probably know by this time that I am into the big game. We are at present in billets and are very comfortable considering. I have an old inn bed and a fire place which keeps the cold out any way. We have our happy home in a cellar and it can be made very comfortable. The only thing that bothers us are the rats and they are very numerous in these parts. They are without any exaggeration about the size of small cats and are very bold