March 13th, 1915
France
Dear Sister
Just received Mothers
letter with yours enclosed and needless to say I was very glad to hear that you
won the Silver medal at the Lit. Let me
ask you if that was just a Lit for the girls or for all the College. When I went to Brandon College there was just one
Lit for the whole College and it was held on Friday evenings.
Say V-V has the Arts
held their usual Annual Banquet. If there are any old students of 1910 ask them
if they remember the Arts Banquet of that year.
There were a few of us fellows waiting on table during the time that
they were making speeches I went upstairs to Clark Hall and got Isabel Drummond
who was in charge to wake up some of the girls and come down to the servants
Dining Room where we had a banquet of our own.
Miss Whiteside was the
Matron there. We were all reported and
poor Isabel was not allowed outside of the Building for six weeks. Ask Jack (Evans) if he remembers the time. He was in First year arts then.
Well V-V lately there
has been a terrible lot of wounded coming in.
We have had two trainloads in the last two days. Among them Princess Pats and some of the 90th
from Winnipeg. It seems all the harder
when you find men that you knew at home with a bullet in them, away out in this
country.
Around this
neighbourhood there are three large Hospitals and we have had the least deaths
of any of them. So you see we have some
very clever surgeons here.
Well sister it makes
letter writing very difficult when you can not say anything in your letters in
regard to the movement of our troops etc.
So I will come to a close Remember me to your little roommate that wrote
to Mother and write soon. Every success
in all your studies and exams.
Love
Chuck
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