EAG-17

B.E.F.
24.12.17

Dear Sir,

I wrote you some time ago but as no answer has arrived I am beginning to think my letter has been mislaid. I don't know if I told you in my previous letter that I was evacuated from my old Ambulance through illness and sent to the base. However, I am quite alright again and up the line again in another Ambulance. This is Christmas Eve and I am spending it in an ex-German dug-out about 60 feet underground. It is composed of passages and we have to sit all day with knees touching our chins, and at night when we lie down we are as close together as sardines in a tin. However, it is all helping to win the war, so we must put up with it. The weather has been very cold for the past fortnight and we have had our first fall of snow which seems to have allieved⁷¹ the cold a little. I am a bit later in wishing you Christmas greetings but I sincerely hope you shall have a happy and prosperous New Year.

I remain
Your obedient servant
J.F. Eagleson