37 Company CFC
Ca Exped Force
France
Sgt. CRT Bailey #39260
(Estimated date of letter; March 15, 1918)
Dear Mother
Seems ages since last I
had a letter from any of you at home, of course I know Mother it is not your
fault. When a person moves around so
much we should be grateful to the army methods of postal service that I get any
at all. Yes Mother I am still with the
Canadian Forest Corps and like it just as well as ever. And will be indeed sorry if I ever have to
leave them before the end of the war.
We are still doing the same kind of work as I
described to you in my last letter. My
duties do not call for a great lot of dispensing, it consists more of medical
aid work and I think I prefer it, after being used to so much dispensing in the
hospitals. The mess here is splendid, it
is good plain food and plenty of it, quite a contrast to the mess in England,
and the open air life makes a fellow eat so hearty.
I had a letter from my friends in England
yesterday and by all accounts we are having much nicer weather here than in
England in fact this spring in France has been most favourable I tell you
Mother it’s a great difference to the spring of 1915.
Mother I thought of you and wondered what you
were doing on the 8th. No I
did not forget that it was your Birthday, in fact I started a letter to you but
could not find time to finish it.
So mother if it’s not too late allow me to
congratulate and hope that before you have another, we will all be together
again. You know dear, on active service
we are only allowed to write a certain amount and I think I am beyond my limit
now. So remember me to Dad and VV and
don’t worry about me as I am as safe as can be I will come to a close Mother
with
Love
Chas
Charley's Mom with her second husband; Marmaduke Thomas Lorenzo Lloyd.
Jane (Jennie) Howie
Born: March 8, 1872 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada
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