12th Can.Gen.Hosp.
Bramshott
Nov. 12/18

Dear Mother.

Since I last wrote you just over a week ago did not know exactly what was to be done with me but last Monday morning I was operated on and had my appendix removed of which has been very successful and today I am feeling fine only my side is a little sore but that can only be expected. They have not taken the stitches out yet but it is healed dandy and will leave a very small scar by the looks of it and not so bad as most I have seen. The report of my operation is all Dutch to me but it said there was an old ulcer scar but cannot make out in what part. I have not asked the doctor how he found the condition of my stomach but one thing is sure I will never have appendicitis anyway now. It seems hard luck to be in bed when the armistice was signed but I tried hard to get the operation before the war was over so it would not cost me anything and I just did it and that is all. There is all kinds of rumours going around now as to how one will be sent home but they say the troops in France will be the first to go and look at all the fellows who have just gone over. I was surprised to see how many fellows had been marked Canada since I came to hospital and they were mostly conscripts too and last week one fellow was marked Canada on a fractured bone in his foot but of course that would not have happened a few months ago. As for me I will wait patiently until my turn comes as now the war is over there is not the same hurry to get home now as there is no need of going back to France again. I cannot realize it all and the fellows in the hospital took the news as calm as anything but of course everybody expected to anyway so that makes a difference than if it came all of a sudden. This must be a great day in Canada the people will hardly know how to thank themselves and there is one thing Canada has all the reasons to be proud of what her boys have done in this war as no bunch of men have achieved more than the Canadian corps has in France bar none & old Currie will go home with his belly sticking away out with the name the boys have given him. It is kind of hard writing laying on your back writing on your knees cocked up as am trying to do but it is the best I can do just a present now. There is practically nothing much to write about. I expect to be in bed for about another week at least and will most likely be in hospital for a couple of weeks at least after that and now I do not suppose they will care so much about being in a hurry to get is back to our units as there will be no hurry now to get us back into shape as soon as possible. I hear that all the Class B men are to be sent home from England the first of all so if that is so I might be able to get back with the first lot. Hoping this finds everybody well as I hope to be also in about a week now. Will close now with love to all.

Your loving son

Gordon

P.S.
Still send my mail to the 1st C.C.D.