Flanders June 4th

Dearest Mother

This is my birthday isn't it? I would not have known it though if I had not heard someone say it was the 4th.

Elizabeths letter arrived OK and I was right glad to get it, Lill wrote to me from Folkestone a few days ago, but it is so hard to know whether I am going to get my leave within the next six months or not that I told her not to expect me. If things run right I should go in a few weeks now. They did not take me into the trenches this time and it was just luck, too, for our boys were almost wiped off the earth as you have probably seen by now. There are no two ways about it. I have a ring of horse shoes around my neck.

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 9 / ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. / Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Price Ellison, 1916.