Letters From Vincent

Dear Mother and Father, Just a few lines to let you know that I am in the best of health. Hope you are receiving my letters regularly. Received yours of the 10th of December. I suppose Mother, you are back home now. I hope you had a good trip to Toronto. Agnes will be getting along fine no doubt. Grandma will be quite comfortable in that she has some heat right with her all the time. I suppose she will kind of miss poking the fire but the heat will be there just the same. You

Dear Mother & Father, Well today is Christmas and it is fine and cold with not a terrible lot of mud, although last night rain simply came down in torrents. We had a fine Christmas dinner, having four roast chickens. So we fared pretty well. Everybody had lots of boxes. I received a dandy from you also another one containing apples which certainly did go fine. I don’t think there is anything I enjoyed better since I left Canada than some Canadian apples. My platoon had their

France Dear Mother & Father, Well it is getting very near Christmas and the boxes are beginning to come in. This last week I received four boxes from you so I have been living pretty high. The marmalade was put away in no time. I got the parcel containing the gloves and the handkerchiefs and they could not have come at a better time. One box was pretty badly crumped about but I salvaged a fine pair of thick socks, a bottle of homemade catsup, some oxo and some preserved ginge

France Dear Mother & Father, Received your letter of the 5th last evening and am sorry you are not receiving my letters regularly. The 1st couple of weeks over here things came along so rapidly that I didn’t get settled down to writing as often as I should, as for the cable, I was unable to get it through, but possibly could have left some body word to send it for me but my letter I thought would be sufficient as it anticipated the move by a couple of days. Dupuy has just joi

France Dear Mother and Father, This is Monday noon. I have just finished my dinner and am going to have all the afternoon to myself. Spent all morning in digging trenches so I will have to clean up considerable as it is very muddy work. I also worked all day Sunday so this afternoon will be a welcome rest. I am probably going back to my battalion tomorrow so am getting a few things together. Yesterday afternoon I had a fine bath in a Brewery, but not in beer as having it in a