N.d. [April 1915]

Dear Wife & children

I now take the pleasure of answer your letter of the 17th I am doing it in a place where I have never wrote a letter to anyone before I am in a trench in France & it is some experience I am pleased to say I am pretty well I hope all at home are the same pleased to hear May likes her place & it is as you say I shall see a big difference with luck I had a letter from Cornwall & Uncle Jack lost is youngest daughter on the 24 January I will now say good bye as we are not allowed to say to much about ourselves from your loving Husband & Father