Sewell June 9/15

Dear Mother

I received your letter on Monday morning but our letters must have crossed as I mailed one at the end of last week. We have had some awful bad weather since Sunday. It rained most of Sunday and snowed on Monday afternoon and is raining now but I do not know if they will be drilling or not. I am on sick parade again today, my right side has been sore for two or three days now but I do not know what it is the doctor says it is indigestion. The grub we get is enough to give anybody indigestion especially when it is windy and everything we eat has sand in it. The 1st and 3rd C.M.R's left last night in three special trains all after on another and the 9th and 10th are down here now but have not seen them yet. So Storer had just come too late to see Willie off. It has been pretty cold for the last few nights and I am sure we have had frost. I saw by the paper that Tom Olding was wounded. The 200 men of the draft from this battalion leave on Monday for England, at least I heard an officers telling the men yesterday. We have changed again we are now the 15th Platoon but none of us have changed. They just have them different numbers but still have the same men and officers so I think the next time you write just leave our the platoon number and tell them at the office to do the same things as we are getting better known now as they need more help all along as there are so many returned soldiers coming back. I suppose Muriel is home by now for her holidays, has it been [?] up there are it is something fierce down here and we had an awful thunder storm last Thursday and worse luck it was the 2nd time they had to postpone a picnic that they had arranged for us here. I saw young Handeock the other day in town but none of the other boys were in with him. I saw by the paper that the 232nd have been ordered to camp and I wonder what [?] will do about the paper. I did not get the last issue....

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