August 8th, 1918
Sgt CR Bailey
#34260
Dear Mother
Just imagine Mother,
three more days and I will have completed four years Army Life. Hardly seems possible to have had four years
of it and goodness knows how much longer.
Oh well I have no complaints to make, life with a Forestry Company is heaven
to what some of the fellows have got to go through.
Well Mother things in general are going along OK it has been rather
nasty weather for the past week or so but after three months of perfect weather
we more or less must expect a change.
Has VV left for Sask yet, someway I hardly think she will like it out
there. You know how I liked it and I
believe it will strike her about the same.
It’s too lonesome, not enough young people.
Say Mother will you send me Ireland's address. I should like to drop him a line or two, just
to hear how all the boys are going on. I
am enclosing the photograph of the kiddies, so you can send it to them and say
it has been over to France. Just for fun
Mother, say that part of the family reached France if it was only the kiddies
photo. But really Mother it is a nice
looking little boy and I would have liked very much to keep the picture.
What has Richmond gone
back to Dawson for? Is it that he had to
finish his law examinations there? I was
under the impression he was through, and VV was saying that Karl has gone in
for dentistry or was it chemistry. Well
if he had to put in the long hours I had to put in the drug line, he won't stay
with pharmacy very long. I am awfully sorry
to hear Dad is getting so poor in health, but perhaps by the time you receive
this he will be feeling well again.
Tell VV that Miss
Whitesides; her old supervisor in Brandon College has taken over a ladies
college in Ontario.
Well Mother I seldom go
anywhere so you can tell how hard letter writing is, absolutely no news of any
interest. Remember me to Dad and VV and
write soon. Mother I must close with
fondest love.
Chas
This is not Charley's Corp but a good example of what he would have been doing. "Bush scene, Canadian Forestry Corps, Gerardmer [France] February, 1919" Canadian Forestry Corp
