D Company.
40^th Battalion,
Valcartier
2. P.

Dear Father:-

We are sitting here in the tent to-day playing cards etc. It is raining hard and I don't think they will have any drill but you can't tell. It rained hard all night and a good many tents got flooded but we got through all right. It will soon get cold here now as the rainy season has set in we will soon be leaving here but I don't know whether we will go to Halifax for the rest of the winter or go right on to England. Anyhow we go to Halifax to embark. We are all formed in platoons now. The Yarmouth boys are all in one platoon. I hear Fred [?] has enlisted. I am sorry he wont be here but I guess probably he will go to Sussex N.B. to train for the 64^th Higlanders as the 40^th are over-strength now. There is about 260 going from the 40^th for reinforcements any day now. There are about 400 Germans here in a detention camp. I had started this in the morning and was writing when they said to fall in for parade. We have been drilling all day in mud and water and it is still stormy. I have just come back from moving pictures, There was a Highlander from Scotland here to-day to instruct them in bayonet practice. He has been to the front and was wounded. I have not got my rifle and equipment yet. Some of the boys get theirs to-morrow but I don't whether I will get mine or not. I can't send a $1 this month but I might be able to next month. In the meantime I wish you would send me the Light when it comes.

Yours
Keith