1.4.15

Dear Wife & Children

I now take the pleasure of answering your letter hoping this will find you all in the very best of health as it leaves me at present we have had a lovely day to day for the first of the month & I hope we shall have lots more Dear Wife if you have not had any letter's it is not because I have not wrote them for I have sent lots one & more often two a week I am pleased to think that all is working & I hope they will be able keep at it for quite a while fancy going to make shell at the steel they might to go head now & that will make lots of work for them I am pleased to think I have so many asking after me remember me to them & till them I have seen lots & been in lots that was never before in war it is no picnic it is one long strain & you never know one minute from the other you might get hit but I hope I shall have the good luck to come out of it alive we shall be at it good & heavy this month & then that will tell the tale as we shall be right in the thickest of it by the looks of things but you never know as things get change so soon I will now conclude this time with best love to you all from your ever loving Father & Husband

W.J. Howe.