No. 10 Convalescent Camp

France April 12, 1918

Dear Jane,

I suppose it is up to me to send you a letter seeing that I am not with the company. It is close to three weeks since I left and have been in hospital with a dose of the flue and am now waiting to be sent down to the base. I am wondering how the deuce Bill and Harry are getting on for there has been some hard fighting lately. I see in the paper that the NZers had been attacked three times so that will mean a rough handling for them. My word, I have been lucky to get away just now but by all appearances I will get may share when I get back. It is rotten being away from the boys and not knowing what is doing. Although it was a grand life sitting by the sea-side in a nice warm Sun. Today is grand I have been sitting on this sandhill watching the boats going across the Channel. I wish I was on board one of them on my way back home again. I have been here a week now and expect to be sent away any day. I met Tom Bigwood Sergt Major as I came in. He was going out after having three weeks of this camp. The parades are not hard nine o’clock to about eleven chasing a football or something like that and after dinner a small march and home again by 3.30.