Norton (County of London) War Hospital Ward G Epsom Surrey 6.1.1917

Dear Fred Probably you though I had forgotten you altogether bu the reason I hav'nt written before is that I couldnt give you any information as to our movements or where we were located but now I can tell you a little fo what has happened since we have been across the channel. We left England about the end of July for Flanders and a week after we were in action in the Ypres salient at Voormazeele _ St Eloi and Kemmel Hill and put in two months there. We were in cellars and dugouts in the famous convent at Voormazeele for three weeks and it was pretty warm there in the trenches every night working under machine gun fire _ whiz-bangs, coalforces etc and ever other diabolical con-trivance that "Fritz" has invented to make things uncomfortable for