Letters From the Front

Dated: February 3, 1916

LETTER FROM THE FRONT

Belgium, Feb. 3, 1916

Dear Dad and Mother--

I received your most welcome letter last night and was pleased to hear you were all well. I am glad to hear that you received the Christmas card alright, also the Battalion Year Book. I sent one of the Books to Grimsby [England] and it seems to have travelled all around the city. I have not heard anything about being released to make munitions. The reason my last letter was dated from France is because we crossed the boundary for a rest, the boundary is only a few miles from our part in the firing line.

We have been having better weather lately, not so wet, but much colder, which we do not mind so much as the wet.

The Germans are keeping very quiet on our front, I think we scared them pretty good when we took that barricade. Our artillery did some fine shooting the other day, every shot they fired hit the German trench fair and square and blew it all to pieces. "Gee" it was a grand sight watching them, and they only retaliated with a few shots that did no damage.

I had a letter from Ray Alcock last night, and he is getting on fine and expects to leave the hospital soon, he got hit in the leg and the bullet grazed one of the cords, he was indeed very lucky.

I remain, your loving son,

COLIN