Belgium

Amay 13th Dec 1918

Dear Jane

Your welcome letter of Sept 10th to hand two days ago. We are still on our way to Germany. I think today is our tenth days march and the fifteenth day since we started. We have had some pretty wet days and by the end of the march everyone is very easily put out. Stll after a cup of tea one soon gets back to normal again and laughs at the little bites on the way. We were supposed to entrain at Chareloi (~20 km west of Namur) but did not do so. They took a bit of our gear from us so that lightened the pack a little. Harry left us at Chareloi to go on leave. He is to cross on the 16th so I expect he is on the way now. Doie and I have been going strongand should see it out all right. I have just been giving the youngsters a blast so they have quietened down a bit. We are billeted in a picture theatre and have the band with us so the boys are sweeping up to have a dance. We have a garson (garcon) playing a big bass instrument and he is making some noise. As we were starting this morning we saw two women fighting over a piece of wood. They were jabbering away twenty to the dozen and the diggers chucked off at them. The people all the way along the route are “Vive la Anglaise” and clapping their hands. Today we came through the town of Huy (5 km SW of Amay) and (they) took great interest in the troops. Here comes a piano into the show so we are to have some dance. I can see this letter writing coming to a stop pretty soon. Two days ago we were at a place called Temploux nine