Bramshott
12th Can. Gen. Hosp.

Nov. 3/18

Dear Mother:

Well here I am again in hospital of which I knew would happen soon again after I left Epom as I was not in such good condition as I should have been and could tell the way my stomach felt. I received your letters dated Sept. 18 & 29 and the one Muriel wrote on Sept 23rd, also had one from Tucker last week. The last time I wrote complained of my thumb being sore and could not write very good and is pretty sore yet when I handle a pencil, Oh! yes also had a letter from Gordon and he was still keeping well and said he hoped he would not have to go through the same again. I tell you the Canadians have seen an awful lot of fighting since the battle of Amiens on Aug. 8 and have been constantly at it ever since then and in the paper this morning have taken another big town (Valencienes) I do no know how to spell it but it is something like that anyway. We have a fire in our ward and it is so cold my hands are blue and am sitting up in bed with a coat on to keep warm. I do not know what they think I have but the other day when I went on sick parade, Thursday, no it was Friday the Md. said he would send me to hospital for an operation as I would not be well until I had one but they have said nothing to that effect here so far. The sister told me my appendix is in a chronic condition and are feeding me on milk & eggs and puddings. I really believe that having gastritis so much that it has kind of ulcerated my stomach but do not know if I am correct or not. What makes me that that is because my stomach is always sore as well as below my right ribs and side and when I eat anything it seems to scald my whole stomach as well as having some kind of indigestion so I guess they will have to keep sending me back to hospital if they do not get rid of it altogether and believe me they will have some time to send me back to France unless they do fix me up. Still send my mail to No 3 company. 1st C.C.D. Witby as I will most likely be back there by the time the answer to this letter comes back and perhaps will have left by then. I owe Mrs. May a letter and she said that her daughters husband, Joe Vickers had been wounded, but not very severe. I hope that will be a good job dad has got a the mill and will last for the winter at least if it is not too hard for him. I cannot think of anything to write about these days as things are do not seem to go very well over here and it is far worse trying to soldier in this darn country than it is in France and if ever I was fed up with the army has been this last month and by all that's holy if I ever get feeling real good again I bet I will not stay in England very long and take my chances in France as I did before. Do not think I am very sick because I start to feel a lot better as soon as I get the proper kind of food but just the same would take very little to put me completely one the blink and no doubt would have been a lot worse than I was if I had not quit eating practically everything but bread and porridge and a few potatoes. I still live in hopes of getting something done sooner or later. Will keep you posted as how things are going and I guess I will close now with love to all from your loving son

Gordon