Letter to Mother from Somewhere in France

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To Mrs Alice D. Cunningham
Hazenmore Sask Canada
S. W. in France
15-4-18

Dear Mother:–

I spent sunday night on a work party till 1, A,M. today I have had a good sleep.

I watched about a 100 shells come from like Cardiff school and light on the ridge east of the dam to about 100 yds back east of there. I had my head peaking out over the parapit. The dirt surely flies and every thing else that is close to the shell as it lights.

We have a very good view of Heinie land here we can see the smoke of his trains and the shells bursting over there, all so the flash of his big guns when he looses a shell at us, and the smoke the raises after each round,

I made coffee twice today and had tea twice and cocoa once from the kitchen so I have had enough to drink.

I guess we are having the last chilly snap for this spring. I hope so any way.

11-4-18

Well Mother I got a paper today the first one for very nearly a week. So we were pretty well interested.

It is still cloudy but not bad we had a good work party last night got to bed by 12 midnight.

18-4-18

I was on a work party last night, I cooked two good hot meals one was an onion and bully freid, the other cheese, bread crumbs, fat beef freid together it went fine.

I took Richardson out to the dressing station sick in fournoon. The green grass is about eight in high. I went up to the dressing station to see if certain wells were condemned this P.M. it is raining a little, quite a few shells bursting around all the time I had a good dinner fried onion with bully hash and a slice of bread crumbled into to it with a big piece of margarine it was good dope out here near the firing line.

I am inspecting the boys feet today that is my job to see that none of them get sore for any reason, and to see that they change socks often, and that they rub there feet good once a day,

19th

Well Mother we have a little snow today but the sun has come out so I guess it will not last mom[small chunk burned out of bottom of page]uits, minuites te, he,  [in margin] I had an accident with bottom of sheet and candle.

[At top of last page]21-st everything O.K. L.D.C.

I just finished a letter to Harvey A. he is able to be up in a chair now, says he soon will be able to get around on crutches. I hope so.

We have some very hot arguments some of these times, when there is nothing to do but sit around sleep and eat, do a little work party and etc. 

20-4-18

6.10 P.M. Supper is over and a little march to make, but a nice evening, I am sitting in the open in some old ruins. this old village is about the worst broaken up of any I have seen, they have even pounded in 90% of the cellars, and demolished all traces of the walls of the houses so there is nothing but brick, steel and wood to be seen.

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