c/o B of M 9 Waterloo Place 14th Dec. 1916

My Dear Dodie

Your letter was handed to me by the mail Dept. as we were marching through Albert on our way into the line and I dont think I have ever enjoyed a letter so much in my life. I have always been told that no one could hold a candle to you for a good letter and that one must have been one of the best. If you only half guessed how a letter like that can buck a chap up. I wish I could find words to explain it.

I have had the most wonderful luck I managed to get what we call a perfect Blighty. That is a flesh wound (mine happens to be across the shoulder blade)

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 4 GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver Correspondence inward, 1916.