October 28, 1916 pg2

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D.H. Radcliffe
Bramshott Camp, Oct 28/16
Eng.

Sam's Canadian Army [handwritten over the printed letterhead Soldiers' Christian Association
Camp Home.] [Logo.]

Miss Nettie McNaughton,

Dear friend, -
Your very welcome letter to hand. Yours and Mr.
Alp's letter to me came in the same mail. I sent you a letter two or three
weeks ago. I was in a hurry when writing it, to get sending it to the P.O.
with one of the boys from a hut that wasn't Quarantined. We who were
quarantined weren't allowed to go up town, and in order to send it
that night I had to make it short and in my hurry to get it ready I
missed putting in one sheet. I wrote three sheets and thought I put that
many in, so probably you got a blank sheet. It puts me in mind of
one time Miss Philips from Port Huron, who hadn't got a letter from
Rachel for some time, sent her a postage stamp enclosed in a letter.

Well, we just got out of quaratine on Thursday. We have been
broken up as a battalion, as no doubt you have already heard.
The officers in all the companies excepting C. Co., that is the commanding
officers, were too old to go to the front, and also our colonel was
rather old, and that had something to do with the batt. being
broken up. We expect to be in France before Xmas, if not in the
trenches. There will [torn] fighting yet, that is a
certainty. Things look [torn] [illegible] just now.

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