Camp Hughes, Man
Aug. 5th, 1916

Dear Aunt Lily,

Excuse the typewriter but I have a lot of letters to write and can do them much quicker on the machine.

I arrived in camp in good condition and have had a fairly easy time of it since. We were out on a route march on Thursday when the wind and rain storm caught up to us and of course we had to hold on to the grass to be sure of not going up in the air, we getting our lungs filled with dust and then the rain came and wet us through, but we got home safely and were practically dried out when we arrived. The tents in camp were mostly all down and some of them were ripped to pieces, even beyond repair, the big mess tent that the 1100 men eat in being so far gone that it will not be put up again.

I received a letter from Mother stating that Lou had been transferred to the 32nd Reserves of England for the time being until the doctors were able to make another examination, when he expected to be able to go over to France again.

I apparently left Yellow Grass without the camera views I had with me, and if you have come across same in your straightening around I would like to have them sent to me, any that you want a copy of put a little cross on the back of same and I will have them printed and sent to you.

With love,

Cecil