Series 1 Oliver McNaughton

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as we celebrate the fifitieth anniversary, but under such different circustances. It is very wet & cold here, & has been for a week or two, but I think the wet time is usually over some time in July. It makes it bad for the farmers haying, & of course, disagreeable for our business. Several of us were allowed to go & visit Jack Evans grave. I am enclosing a pressed flower I plucked from the graveyard and he is in which is a splended one. I hope you people have fine weather for your usual July 1st celebrations. I suppose nearly everybody was out in a Ford car . I am feeling fine & hope you and mother aare Jake a loo. Also the [??] Cousin Jack was slightly wounded the last trip in and is probably at the Base hospital. He wanted to stay in the line but the M.O sent him out. Your loving son Oliver

On active service

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Miss Nettie McNaughton, R.R. No.1, Granton, Ontario, Canada

Somewhere in France July 13, 1917

Dear Sister:-

I fancy it will be about the 10th of next month by the time this reaches you; so I hereby send you my very best wishes.

Also, that long looked for box from the Hendale Red Cross & Mc Naughtons arrived yesterday evening; I hadn't time to write or even sample the box as I was just falling in for a night waking party. However, I sampled it to day & everything was Jake a loo except that the writing paper got stained through by the cream cheese. The envelopes were O.K. The maple sugar was superb, cake the same & everything else. I also got

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a parcel from the Granton Red Cross through Mrs Buke. There was some maple sugar in it too. As a consequence some of us have a sweet tooth just now. The sox, a pair in each parcel, are appreciated. I am well fixed for good sox and am glad of it. I wrote the President of the Glendale Red Cross & thanked them for the parcel: I was so sure the other would come I just spoke as though I had received them all. I didn't know who the president even as the slip with the address of the sender was in the box I got last night. Send Mrs Elliot (Pearl)

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my heartiest wishes for a happy and prosperous married life; s'il vous plait. I would write to her myself but do not know her address. I got yours & Mabels letter of the 17th of June two nights ago. It certainly came right through, being addressed directly to France. That made three letters from home in two days. I suppose Allan feels like the day after to-day. I feel a little sleepy myself as I worked all last night; Dave Radcliffe was with me. I wrote to Frank Wilson the other evening. I got a letter from Lieut-Langford yesterday. He was speaking about them