Napsbury

Oct 19th 16

Dear Mother:-

Rec'd your welcome letter yesterday enclosing Frank's photo. I also rec'd a letter from Vera Lamont.

It is a month yesterday since I got hit and I expect to be going to a convalescent hospital any day as the medical board recommended it.

I wrote Uncle Arthur soon after I arrived here but I have had no word from him so I thought he might have been sent to France.

I guess pretty well al the boys have been killed or wounded as the Canadians have been getting it pretty hot for the last six weeks. Maurice Duquette got a flesh wound and was somewhere around here. I saw Bert Guerin on the boat. He was a walking case. Bob stanley was out of luck. I don't know how the rest of the boys came out.

I can't hold the paper still so you can excuse the crooked lines.

Well I am coming along fine. The wound in my side is healed up. My arm is coming along fine. I shall be able to use it in another month.

I don't know where you get the idea of my getting home. You have to be permanently disabled to get home on it. But still the first five years is the worst.

It will be jake if Frank lands here about the end of this month. I expect his battalion will be used to reinforce ours. Same as the 44th and 61st. I saw all the Whitewood boys. They all went to the 5th & 28th battalions, being Saskatchewan boys, and the 68th, being a Saskatchewan battalion. What battalion did young Chalk go to, the 28th? Where is Evert? It's quite a mix-up now we have over 50 battalions of Canucks in France, 4 divisions comprised of 12 brigades.

Well we are having pretty fair weather at present. I was just thinking it's a good thing young Phil is too young to join up or you would be out of luck. Well you've got four men in the army, you've done your share.

Well dear

Love to all

Jack