Dear mother

I hope you are all quite well. thank you for your Tobacco & cigarettes, dont send any more for some time, not till I write and ask you because they are sending some to us from medicine Hat soon. I am getting along fine so far. I was in the Trenches Twice now both times were pretty quite. up were we are they are not doing very much in their part of the line. I got your letter this morning just before I came out, I am on an observation post, & as everything is pretty quite I thought it would be a good time to write to you. just at the back of us some [censored] the German Gun's are firing over us at some thing in rear of us. Most people out here seem to think the War will be over pretty soon.

I wish I could tell you were we are at, but they wont let us. This morning I run across a Walnut tree by the side of a House that had been shelled so I got a few nuts. most of the Houses & Villages around here are in ruins it is a great pity to see them all knocked to pieces that way. I'm glad that the War is not in England when I see this country.

I am afraid that I have no news at all, or at least any that I can send.
Give my love to Emmy & all at Home I remain

your loving Son

Tommy.

P.S. I didnt get a chance to send this yesterday because I had no envelove, so I sent a card instead