France

28/4/17.

Dear Jessie & Stuart - Just a line so that you may know I am well and not having too bad a time.

Our rest is about over and we are back to our old town again and expect to go up to the front line soon. We have had a good rest and although they kept sending us from place to place we were fortunate in getting fairly good billets.

The fight still goes on with sometimes a good win and at other times a struggle to ward off a strong counter attack. There is not a continuous line of front trenches now but instead isolated strong points are won and defended. Shell holes are improved and they provide good cover from view. Of course if the weather is bad living in isolated places is not easy. The getting up of all supplies is also more difficult under those conditions. You never know when to expect a Bosche machine gun. They stick them here and there in the most impossible places.

I was up towards the line yesterday reconnoitering and I just wish you could both have been with me to se what is going on. There are men men men everywhere and doing every conceivable thing from building railroads to sticking a shell in a gun. Supplies seem to be adequate and the men are working in an atmosphere of optimism.

I must close now. I am quite well. Write Soon.

Affectionately

Leslie.