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so never got them. I expected the man I ordered them from would forward them to me as some of the other fellows ^who had ordered some too,^ asked him about it and he said he would. I was going to send one to you. I didn't mind losing the dollar I spent for them ^for we're not very careful of our money here, ^but was disappointed in not getting them.

How is the "League" getting on and how is the c hurch attendance now? Do you know whether Mr. Alp got my letter. If you know you might let me know, as he wouldn't like it if I didn't write. I wrote to him quite a while before I left Eng.

Am sorry we're limited to what we say about our doings etc. here as I could write a much longer letter if we could tell everything.

Will close by wishing you a Happy and Bright New Year, and hope the time will come when I can tell you in person our interesting experience.

Write soon. Yours sincerely,

D.H.R.

[Stamp] Passed Field Censor 1364 [postmark] Toronto, Ont. Mar 9 5 am 1917 [Field postmark] Field Post Office 1B. 11 Fe 17

(On Active Service) Miss Nettie Mc Naughton, Granton, Ontario, Canada.

[Top left corner] YMCA logo and Canadian War Contingent Association

Somewhere in France1/16/17

Dear friend, -

Received your box ^yesterday and wish to thank you kindly for remembering me. We are ^as tickled to get a box from Canada as a kid is to get into its stocking on Xmas morning. I got a box of cigars from Oliver and some of the other fellows who are still in Eng. My address. Pt. D.H. Radcliffe, No. 802864, 4th Batt., C. Coy., M.G.S., B.E.F., France.

I'm in the mechine gun section now. I like it alright. I suppose Oliver has told you something about that work.

Well I suppose you have lots

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of snow over there. We haven't any just here, but I see by the papers they have all kinds of it in Eng., the trains being blockaded in places. There is snow in some parts of France too.

How is the choir getting on. Is Dave Youngson still in it. I suppose Will still attends. I got a card from Lorne Ridley, or at least a letter. He says he likes London. I also got a letter from Ken Alp.

How are the "hops" doing this winter. ^Not the ones that grow in gardens.^ We get lots of hoping out here, but not that kind. The mud is too deep to enjoy it. We won't know how to act in a house now

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after roughing it out doors so much. It will take us awhile to get used it living like civilized beings again, that is if we get the chance to get used to it, but we will keep on hoping anyway.

I got your card. You didn't sign your name, but I know your writing.

I suppose Jessie is teaching now.

I heard that one or two of the Duncan boys would soon be leaving for home and that Fred Courney who has been home to Lucan