Letters From the Front

Dated: December 20, 1918

La Hulpe

Dec 20/1918

Dear Friends, I received your kind and welcome Xmas Box tonight. Very thoughtful of youes [sic]. I am keeping most of it for the 25. I am reading the little tid bit about always on the job, and the rest of them.

I am well and in the best of health. They have me cooking now. The boys say that they like me for I am always happy. [It’s] a very good job, but I am not in love with it. Of course I am out of all the wet weather and the night guards. I have 25 to cook for. It [was] not a very nice job when Fritz was putting shell[s] over on you. That’s the time a fellow did not wait for his tea cooking in a shell hole. Now we are all in houses and have good beds and the French people think the world of the Canadians. Can [sic] do enough for us. I have received about seven box already for Xmas. One of our Batt. has over 900 parcels, that [is] a parcel for every man in the Batt. So the people in Canada are thinking about us. I must close now for it [is] getting late. Good bye and again many thanks

Wishing you all a Merry Xmas and a happy New Years.

From Wm. Doherty