#3                                                                                    Somewhere in France

                                                                                                June 6-1918

 

Dear Mother:

 

            Just a few lines to let you know that I am as well as I can be.  We are having fine weather and as we are outside most of the time we are bound to be healthy.

 

We have daylight until 10 o’clock at night.  There is only one trouble here and that is that they have no candy or anything like [that] to sell in this town.  The town we are in now is very small and has only one or two stores.

 

This afternoon we marched about two or three miles to another town where there was a small stream.  We took a bath and washed our clothes.  I do not think we got very clean as the water was pretty dirty.  It was the first chance we have had to take a bath in over a week.  We do not have the bathing facilities here that we had at Camp Logan.

 

We have not received any mail as yet but I think we will get it in a few days.  I also think we will be paid pretty soon.

 

            Things are very quiet here, a person would not think there was any war in this country at all.  I do not know how things are outside of this camp as I have not seen a paper for some time.

 

I hope you are all well at home and write as often as you can because news is very scarce here.  Well this is all I can think of right now so I will close with

 

                                                                        Love to all

                                                                                    Theo            

Note:  This letter was probably written from a training site at Eaucourt, NE of Amiens.  The division is still be trained by British and Australian officers.