My dear Mother, The camp is still muddy but not bad at that. We have straw ticks to sleep on and four blankets besides raised boards to sleep on. Everything is fairly comfortable so we have nothing to kick on. The platoon has been split up into two shacks. I have charge of one and have 24 men in with me. They behave well so have no trouble handling them. We draw our food from the cookhouse and eat in our shacks. It is a far better system than was in vogue in Camp Hughes. No butter here and margarine not very plentiful. We do not have any tea to drink at dinner but that does not amount to anything as we get good cocoa or tea for breakfast and supper. Now for some of our hours. Reveille 6:30 a.m. Breakfast 7:15 a.m. morning parade 9 a.m. to noon. Dinner 12:15 Afternoon parade 2 p...

My dear Mother, Here we are at last in camp and it surely is a pretty place. We are about six miles from Brighton, so are quite near the seashore. Will give more details when I write next as I do not know much about the place yet as we only got in at 2 a.m. this morning. We left Saint John a week ago Sunday night and got into Halifax Monday about 10:30 a.m. We got a dandy send off at Saint John. At Moncton there were about 6,000 down at the station but very few waited for us as it was as 12 when we went through. We didn’t see much of Halifax as we went through as we went straight on board the Olympia. Some boat, believe me. The 147th (Neyles, Ont.) 158th (Vancouver), 173rd (Hamilton Highlanders) 180th (Toronto) 194th (Edmonton Highlanders) and the 222nd also a bunch of signallers art...

My Dearest Mother, Here we are down at the seaside waiting for a ship to take us across. How soon that will be I don’t know but I’m fairly well satisfied here as the people of Saint John certainly used us fine so far. It is quite a pretty place. We are on what is called West Saint John. I have to take a ferry to get across to town. It isn’t an island but just where the ocean cuts in here we are at the immigration buildings and you can stand in the front door and watch the tide come in and out. Although it’s very quiet here as it doesn’t get the sweep that it would on the coast. There is two hours difference in the time between here and home. I enjoyed my trip down here the utmost and if the rest of it is no worse than what’s past I’ll be jake. But all the way down I never saw any pla...