McC-04

France

Friday

12/11/15

G.H. Elliott, Esq.

Sir,

I received your answer to my letter some time ago. I intended writing you sooner but time and circumstances were against me. I am quite well and contented, I like my work, and am enjoying myself here. The weather here is very wet at present, raining practically all the time, the roads are in a terrible state with mud.

We were up in the trenches last week. They were in a bad state with mud etc, the poor chaps are up to the waist in water, they are have²⁰⁶ a terrible time. I can tell you it is no joke out here this weather.

We have been continually on the move since we landed here, but now we are in a rest camp we are having it easy for a while. As I pass through the different places, I can see the havoc wrought by the Germans. As we were nearing a firing-line there was a line of trenches running through a ploughed field cutting the main road, a farmer was sowing wheat quite unconcerned, the guns were kicking up a row, but he did not seem to notice them he had got used to the noise of battle.

I have very little news I can tell you at present, but perhaps in my next letter I may be able to tell you something interesting.

I am, Sir,

Yours respectfully,

John McCausland

P.S. Excuse haste and pencil, no ink in the camp.