sector life reaches the acme of monotony. Just now we are having a spell of fine weather & yet the mud in some of the trenches is rather appalling.

What it will be like when the rain sets in again only those who have spent a winter in the trenches like Souchez can imagine. We ought to be better off here because the trenches we have taken over are in decidedly better condition than those we took over at Souchez. This is the first time we have had good dugout headquarters in a dugout made by our own people but the real reason is that they were originally

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 3 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1917.