FIT-02

41^st Casualty Clearing Station
52 Room B Square
Aldershot
1^st December 1915

Dear Sir,

Received your very kind and encouraging letter on 20^th Nov. when at Limerick. I left that training centre with my platoon last Wednesday and arrived here on Thursday on draft for France. We leave here tomorrow night or Friday morning for somewhere in France to 41^st Casualty Clearing Station. We are to rig our own station up and are taking 300 tons of gear out with us. Our work lies in receiving and despatching (when fit to travel) wounded from firing line to Base Hospitals. We shall have risks to run but everything connected with the business of war has its risks. With regard to my promotion I had the offer some time ago of going with another draft as corporal but preferred staying with my earlier friends of this draft as private, my chance will come again.
I leave with this draft as 1^st class nursing orderly. I was delighted to hear of Wm. Brown and Freeland joining. At earliest opportunity I shall write from France. Hoping Sir you are in best of health.

Yours very sincerely,
Joe Fitzsimons