Letters From Vincent

Dear Jack, Received your letter OK and sure am glad to hear from you. I received the tobacco and pipes all right also cigarettes and peppermints and thank you very much for them. It is awfully good of you Jack. Well how are things in Toronto? I suppose business had died down a bit as it naturally would. Do you get down home regularly? It cheers the folks up to have you with them on Sundays the longest day in the week. Agnes must have had a good time while she was home. I wish

Dear Mother & Father, Well tomorrow is the 24th and we can have a real celebration if we want to start something but the last holiday was pretty fair. Received a box of cigars from Aunt Mary and a box from you containing maple sugar, candy and everything so am well looked after. Smoking cigars in a funk hole is rather classy. The other day I drew some artillery fire on our little home by raising too much of a smoke with my cigar. Feel somewhat like a millionaire. They certain

Dear Mother & Father, Received your letters, also the apples for which I thank you. Hope you received my two cables. I also received my flannels OK and they are splendid. I hope you will excuse my long delay in writing you but as you will read by the papers things have been frightfully busy of late. The Canadians stunt at Vimy and all the rest was simply wonderful but, we lost quite a few fine fellows. Well there is very little news that I can tell you that you have not alrea

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, 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

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 simply great. As you know there is no more 93rd Battn. We are the 39th battalion now under Col. Preston. Everything is well organized here and everything is done properly. We are doing some real soldiering now. I was in London last week for three days which I spent in seeing London. I saw most of the most interesting places, St.Pauls, Westmins

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 well fixed financially now so will be able to have some money in the bank. I am going up to London for certain Saturday for six days leave, part of which I will spend in the city. I am going to transfer my account from the Bank of Montreal to the Royal, also I get my clothing allowance of £7/11/0 clothing grant from the pay office. I have ne

Dear Mother & Father, Well I hope you got my other letter. We are pretty busy at present getting things together. As far as we know we leave at the beginning of next week. We are all ready. All we have to do is move out. Rifles and everything are packed. It is a beautiful night though today has been very hot. I was in for a good swim. Do not be annoyed but I have my hair clipped off. It looks all right and is coming in thick but not bristly. I had to have it cut off as Crisp