Dearest sister,
I am glad to have finally heard from you, hearing of you through mothers letters wasn’t enough and Im sure she has kept you from many of the harsh details of my writing. Sincerest apologies for my delay in response as I seldom have the time to sit and write. I hope that Liz is doing well and winning her fight against her leukimia, send her my best wishes. Say hello to everyone. I am writing to you now in the dead of night. Im in the trenches aquainted by my brother soldiers, and of course these wretched rats. Oh how I pray for just one night with out them spoiling our food supplies and worstening the already unbearable stench. You can imagine with the weather getting colder the awful conditions of our trenches that we have to live in. trench foot is rapidly growing …show more content…
I wish I could tell you I was doing well, but sadly I cannot. The conditions in the trenches have only gotten worse with lice infestations, I haven’t been privalleged with a shower in weeks, and most of the men I came and trained with are unnamed soldiers dead in no mans land. I have grown so lonely, for the men who I spend my days with are just as miserable as I am. It is as if I am living among shadows. I am overjoyed to hear of Liz’s recovery and I send her good luck. Please send everyone greetings.
It isn’t all bad news though, the weather is getting warmer and the mud of the trenches is drying a bit making it a little more bearable for us to live in them. As you may have heard we took Vimmy Ridge us 4 canadian troupes came together as a unit under the order of Arthur Currie. We approached the enemies in a whole new way as the battle of the somme shed light on better ways to plan and to loose less men. Unlike the seemingly everlasting battle of The somme vimmy took us a day to concur. Months of planning paid off, and our creeping barrage technique which included 20 000 canadians was evidently
I am glad to have finally heard from you, hearing of you through mothers letters wasn’t enough and Im sure she has kept you from many of the harsh details of my writing. Sincerest apologies for my delay in response as I seldom have the time to sit and write. I hope that Liz is doing well and winning her fight against her leukimia, send her my best wishes. Say hello to everyone. I am writing to you now in the dead of night. Im in the trenches aquainted by my brother soldiers, and of course these wretched rats. Oh how I pray for just one night with out them spoiling our food supplies and worstening the already unbearable stench. You can imagine with the weather getting colder the awful conditions of our trenches that we have to live in. trench foot is rapidly growing …show more content…
I wish I could tell you I was doing well, but sadly I cannot. The conditions in the trenches have only gotten worse with lice infestations, I haven’t been privalleged with a shower in weeks, and most of the men I came and trained with are unnamed soldiers dead in no mans land. I have grown so lonely, for the men who I spend my days with are just as miserable as I am. It is as if I am living among shadows. I am overjoyed to hear of Liz’s recovery and I send her good luck. Please send everyone greetings.
It isn’t all bad news though, the weather is getting warmer and the mud of the trenches is drying a bit making it a little more bearable for us to live in them. As you may have heard we took Vimmy Ridge us 4 canadian troupes came together as a unit under the order of Arthur Currie. We approached the enemies in a whole new way as the battle of the somme shed light on better ways to plan and to loose less men. Unlike the seemingly everlasting battle of The somme vimmy took us a day to concur. Months of planning paid off, and our creeping barrage technique which included 20 000 canadians was evidently