France
June 19 1917

Dear Mother:-

I got your letters of May 13 & 20th last week a couple of days apart. I was over to see Mervin last night when he got Muriels letter with the cheese cloth shirt and was tickled to get it too. His unit has moved to within a few hundred yards of us so we'll be able to see one another quite often but do not know how long we will be that close. I ran across Stanley Holliday a few days ago and he is a mechanic with some of the motor bus outfits and today when I was on the way home with a bunch officer [?] passed Tom Turnham. Both he & Stanley are just a short distance away billeted in the town but it will be kind of hard to locate them. I saw Joe Charett again the other day and he is also in the same place. Allan Brokovski is about four miles from here in the mobile corps, so Geo Carmichael was telling me. Last night when I was over to see Mervin he got a letter from Winnipeg and she gave him my address, so afterwards he came over with me and I had a letter from the same party and she also gave me Mervins address, but I guess she would hardly believe that we were both together at that time. I hope you will be through with your teeth by now as it is now a very nice thing to have the dentist [?] at them all the time. I wish I had that tooth of mine pulled out before as now it has pushed the other one away back and is a darned nuisance. Things are kind of quiet out here now, that is around where we are. Most of the lads that came from Wpg the same time as I did are all around close. We had a Bombadier and another fellow wounded out of our sub last week & are the only ones in our section with the exception of one of the officers. I think I can safely saw since I came over here that is pretty good aint it. I would like to know how it was that Uncle Harry was hauling ammunition up for what Aunty said it was for as the only thing that he would handle and that is if he was still in the transport section and that would be for rifles & small hand bombs. Tell Muriel she had better not let her hubby know that she is writing to unmarried soldier boys out in France here and I told Mervin to be careful when he came to France as he wanted to get his head punched off. Has Gordon got my address and if he has he would be able to tell me when he comes to France & would try to look him up. But of course he will be drafted into some until out here. Well I guess I will close with love to all

Your loving son

Gordon