January 30, 1918
No 1 Red Cross D. of W. Hospital A. P. O. 5.79 B. E. 7, France Jan 30, 18 Dear Mother & Father, I received your cable of the 27th O.K., was very much relieved to hear from you since the fire. The mail has not come very regularly so I expect you have the same trouble. This is a glorious day with bright sunshine blue sky and I have been wheeled outside in my bed and am enjoying it. The grounds of the hospital are beautiful and the hospital is a fine building. Am getting on very
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November 27, 1917
That sig. On envelope is a work of art Dear Mother and Father,
Just a very short note with my left hand so pardon the writing and the brevity of same. I hope you are all well and know that I am all right so you are not doing any unneccesary worrying. My wound is getting okay fine. I am the luckiest person imaginable. Missed all organs and only hit my collar bone. Of course it made quite a little hole but it is gradually filling up. I am still in France as
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November 5, 1917
Dear old Steve, Well you certainly did me a great old going over in your letter of October 5th and I deserve everything. You probably haven’t been getting your mail regularly forwarded from Holt’s bank. I wrote you several times last month, answered the letter you wrote from off ship board and am sure some are going astray if you have not received three or four lately. Many thanks for the box you sent me. There was a card in it from Jessie Rollins saying she was forwarding it
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October 7, 1917
Dear Mother & Father, Received your Labour Day letter the other day and your Sept. 10th letter came in with the rations tonight. I have been sitting here trying to picture every incident. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go fishing at Indian village or up the lake somewhere. It is one thing that I can look forward to. It is getting along into winter now. Tonight it is raining and blowing hard and mud up to the eyes. We are fairly comfortable in an old Bosche dugout. Looks like ano
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September 18, 1917
Dearest Mother & Father mine, I know you will be thinking me very ungrateful in not writing more than I do. I try and write a couple of letters each week but one days seems like another and it is like sending you a carbon copy of the letter previous. I went on leave the 23rd of last month and went straight from the front line to the boat and believe me we were having a hot time of it. So you see how would enjoy it. I had fourteen days in and about London. I got fitted out in
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July 30, 1917
Dear Mother and Father, Just received your letters of July 2nd, also a bundle of Examiners. I hope you are all well. Am still at the course and there is a rumour about that is is to be extended two weeks making five weeks in all, the same as usual. I hope it is so as it certainly is an interesting course in a wonderful part of the country. We have fairly easy hours, work hard when we are at it and when we get off, there are all kinds of games to play, places to go and plenty
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July 22, 1917
Dear Mother & Father, Received your letters of June 25th also the boxes containing the flannels. The strawberries were simply delicious. Your snap Mother is fair of you although you take a better one. Thank you for the flannels. They are just the right thing. It is hard to get anything suitable here. Am at present on a company commanders course of 3 weeks by the sea. After the days work is over we have a game of tennis or baseball and then have a swim in the sea. It is hard t
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July 8, 1917
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
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July 3, 1917
Dear Mother and Father, Received a whole flock of letters today. A big Canadian mail is in so everybody is happy. It is about the 1st Canadian mail I have had for a month. Glad to hear that you are all so well. I suppose you had quite a merry time when Agnes was with you. From your letter I take it that she is getting to look like a nurse. I wonder if she as anything on me for size. I haven’t been on leave yes but expect to go anytime, likely this week. If I go I will cable y
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June 11, 1917
Dear Mother & Father, Glad to hear that you are all feeling well and fit. Received your letters of April 29th and May 6th also the big cake which was splendid and reached me in fine condition. If it is not too much bother please repeat. It certainly went fine. Just received a big tin of tobacco from Jack. I am tickled to death at getting it as I have been sucking my pipe hoping for some good tobacco while I have been smoking some of the issue tobacco. How is the hen coming al
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May 23, 1917
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
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May 18, 1917
Dear Mother & Father, Well today is another bright sun shiny day. Just had an inspection and the men all turned out fine after a pretty strenuous month and more. Some of the familiar faces were missing but their places were filled by some fine looking draught men. Am sending you the picture I intended to send before. It is a bit soiled from carrying around. I received your boxes this last week from you and thanks very much. Received the one that Aunt Mary put the candy in. Am
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May 12, 1917
Dear Mother & Father, This is about the fourth letter I have started to write this week but have not been able to post. Received your letters of April 15th and 23 and am glad you received my cable. I sent one about a month ago but had it returned to me after a couple of weeks in the mails. Received the box you sent me containing the white socks, marmalade, candy and maple sugar. The socks came in fine. Send some more maple sugar will you if you think of it. It comes in better
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March 25, 1917
Dear Mother & Father Received your letters of the 25th of Feb. and also your cable. I hope you have received my cable. Dear Grandma I hope passed away without any pain. Well am in the very best of health and hope you are all the same. Received my flannels OK and am delighted with them. Just what I want. What flannels I could buy here were unbearable. My boxes come fairly regular. There is a big Canadian mail today and everybody is in high spirits. Romaine Stevenson has gone t
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February 6, 1917
Dear Mother & Father, Hope you are receiving my letters regularly now. I received five letters and a box from Canada yesterday. It was a box containing candy, peanut butter, tobacco etc., and it was fine. There was also a tin of canned figs, so you will probably remember the box. The boxes an Examiners come fairly regular up to date. I haven’t received any underclothing but have been able to buy a couple of suits. So I will be fairly well supplied in that line if the suits yo
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January 13, 1917
Dear Mother & Father, Just received your letter of the 24th of December and cannot understand why you are not receiving my letters. I write on an average of one letter a week but sometimes things are not favourable to letter writing as you can quite understand. About two weeks before Christmas I had a little touch of grip, not sufficient to go sick on but still I wasn’t feeling up to the mark. For one reason or another I did not write for about twelve days but that would not
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December 25, 1916
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
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December 19, 1916
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
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November 30, 1916
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
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November 12, 1916 (To Parents)
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
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