

November 12, 1916 (To Grandma)
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...
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November 8, 1916
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...
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October 30, 1916
My address if you have not already got it France 18th Battalion B.E.F. 4th Brigade II Division â„… Army Post Office London Dear Mother &...
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October 21, 1916
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...
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October 17, 1916
Dear Mother and Father, Well after a pretty fast trip across I am now in France. It was a fairly good trip although some of us were...
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October 11, 1916
Dear Mother & Father, Well I have had a streak of luck today. A letter from home and a letter from Agnes. Those snaps of the girls are...
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October 7, 1916
Dear Mother & Father, As you see I am attached to the 39th Battn. at West Sandling Camp. The battalion received its final smash yesterday...
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September 26, 1916
Otterpool Camp Dear Father, Well I received your letter of the 10th with the card which I am filling out and sending to you. I am pretty...
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September 22, 1916
Dear Mother & Father, Well you will be wondering why you haven’t heard from me before. The fact of the matter is we are just out of about...
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September 12, 1916
Dear Margaret, I just received the lovely pair of socks you and mother knit and sent me. I just marched in from Lydd about a distance of...
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