Dear Dad

Just a line hoping you are quite well, as I am still alive and kicking, and in the best of health, and getting on quite all right. I can tell you it isn't like home at all here, rather dull. I don't bother about the shells and snipers' bullets very much. Still, if you keep cheery you are all right. The war will have to end sometime, won't it? We have so long in the trenches and so long out. We haven't had very much fighting as yet. I hope that all the fresh troops here will make something shift. The weather goes to the extremes here. It is very hot in the daytime, and very cold at night. We sleep more in the daytime than we do at night. We have to work at night. I should think the fellows at Wolverton Works will stop there all together now they have been there so long. I hope we do have plenty of scraps with the Germans, as it's rotten being in the trenches, without firing at them. Of course we are very busy all the time, and there is very little time for writing letters. We don't see much life for they don't let us go about at all while we are in the trenches and when we are out there's only a small village near you. I should like to see some of the fellows at home. They would die, not being able to swank about and go to theatres. Still I don't mind a bit being here as long as we buck up and do something.

By the way when you see in the paper about aeroplanes being brought down by gunfire, you know it isn't gunfire that's brought them down, it's only luck. They fire all over the place when they fire at aeroplanes. I had Aunt's parcel quite alright and I enjoyed the stuff that was in it. I hope I shall be with you in a few month's time, and I hope they'll buck up and polish the war off. With regard to money anything you send to the front, if it's addressed properly, and tied up securely, you always get it all right. It's only when it's not properly addressed or insecurely tied up, that it does not reach you. But I have enough money to carry on with at present, and thank you very much for offering to send me some. Well dear Dad, I will now come to a close with the best of my love to you, and all at home.

I remain your loving Son

Albert

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