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p.s am in my hut now & have
a chance to write a few more words.
I have just discovered that a bunch of stamps I put into an empty envelope
have all stuck to the envelope. The Mallard boys are in this machine gun hut.
[del] Merill Mallard was in the hospital with a sore heel. He blistered it, & the
wrong stuff was put on which burnt it
to the bone. He has a bad foot yet. It is an awful night out & Black as pitch &
raining to beat a band. It rains every day & night too.
Bramshott
Oct 29, 1916

[Letterheaded] SOLDIERS' CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CAMP HOME.[Letterheaded]

[Shield with emblem]

From #802301, Pt O.J.Mc Naughton
A. Coy, 125th Batt, Canadians
Army Post Office, London England

Dear Sister: - This S.C.A Hut is only about four rods from the hut
I sleep in. Jack Baynes and I finished a letter to Cliff Hobbs who is in the
hospital at Lincoln, then the Sunday Evening service began. The man who runs
this hut is an old soldier, (a Grenadier Guard), He is too old to go to France, but is quite
an evangelist, and is doing a great deal of good. The service is over and I have
barely time to write a few lines and get back to my hut. I did not get much
of a chance to write to - day. After church service this morning, a large number
of us had to go under medical inspection. I passed the 125th doctor, ok,
He only spent about three seconds on me and told me to get out. I weighed this
afternoon at a Y.M.C.A. hut, and weighed 150 lbs. Percy Foster was with me,
he weighs 180 lbs. Frank Wilson about 170, Cecil Evans, 200, Jack Evans, about
186, etc. So, I am only a midget yet and of course always will be. The 125th
doctor was telling Everett Molland, that the type of man who stands this war the
best is those who weigh between 140 and 170. When it comes to a show down they
have more endurance, that is on the average. I know, on heavy route marches, it
is the big fellows as a rule who are most used up, due no doubt to the extra weight
they carry. We ^^{The Granton Platoon} got out of quarantine on
Thursday at noon, marched from the 115th Batt. camp to the 125th camp, had our
blankets, underwear and clothing fumigated and were then sent to our huts.
They have taken the Platoon up and even the Granton section.
Gowan and I are in the A ^^&B corp, machine gun hut. Foster & Baynes
are in the A & B corp.

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