PER ARDUA AD ASTRA

In the Field

Oct. 12, 1918

Dearest Mother: –

I seems ages since I have written a letter and I'm sure it must be nearly a month since I have written you. We are on a special job and living in the awful waste of the recent battle-area. We are seldom long in one place and have been working like fiends. But now the weather is dud and I at last find the opportunity of writing. No doubt you know of the great old backing-up the Hun is getting. We have been in it full swing and you see these things can't

BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 / DREWRY FAMILY / Selected Correspondence, 1917–1919.