ground he walks on. My flight commander, Captain Smith, has seen a tremendous amount of service with the R.F.C. and is a splendid chap. We have really a fine bunch of chaps here and so you can see I am lucky to be with this squadron and am highly satisfied. We are flying the famous Sopwith "Camel" scouts which have done such a lot of good work for the British, but expect to be given a new and tremendously fast type of machine in the spring – the very latest thing in fighting machines. We are quartered in Nisson huts – 4 to a hut about 200 yards from the hangars and are getting settled down quite comfortably. As the roads are bad we have not been able to obtain fuel and furniture as yet but expect some will be along on the first freeze-up. This French mud is horrible stuff – slippery as grease and sticky as taffy.

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