Continue to address my letters to Bella

Bramshott
Hants
Nov 5/17

Me Dear Dear Betty:-

Well I am back at Bramshott again I arrived here from London yesterday morning I have seen quite a lot of the old boys - I am feeling rather shaky & oh so very very homesick, I think that I told you I had been placed in categary B.I. which makes me safe for a while at least you have spoken once or twice in your letters, about trying to get back home or asking if it isn't possible in some way to get back - I think I wrote you a letter some time ago asking you to try through Rev Dr. Shields, I don't know if you have done anything about this - but if you have not Betty I think that if you could get some of the W'p'g friends interested (see Mr. Mathews) now that I am in a non-combatant category it might be possible to get back to Canada, you yourself are not in the best of health & then there is dear Billy = I think Betty that you could make out a very good case, & then get in touch with the authorities at Ottawa, & ask for my return to Canada - they could only refuse & it is worth the trouble trying.

Now that I have done my bit in France, I feel no compunction in wanting to get back home & I know that I shall never be fit for France again, & sometimes I think that I shall go crazy, my nerves are all gone to pieces & I still suffer a great deal from insomnia & then the intense longing to get home to you dear ones. I am worrying about Billy & you too, am sorry about the Money & wish now that I had not sent for any - however I shall not need any more. You know Betty thinks are getting fierce over here, & for the past two months almost I have had to buy so much in one way or another.

The war outlook is so black just now & oh how thoroughly sick & weary of it all I am you asked in you letter of Oct 5 if I wanted to stay over here, no a thousand times no - all I asked now is to get back to you & the kiddies & then I'd be content anywhere. Try & get some one to take up the case, for you you have my old discharge papers etc from the Imperial Army, & I think as far as you are concerned you cold a letter from Dr. McRae or some other doctor to say that you need me etc, But if you do anything, do it right away & while you try do what you can over there = I'll try & do all I can here. Now Betty dear don't worry about me - I'll live through it somehow, though it is hard to keep smiling all the time. I do hope you & Billy boy are feeling better. I'm anxious. The photos were food, & Mona's letter was fine I must write to her.

Good-night sweetheart, & do what you can perhaps Mr. Foreman will give you some advice it's a hard matter for me to write about fully.

Daddy

My best best love to yourself - Shirley & Billy