c/o 17 Hyde Road Eastbourne Eng 7/12/17 Dear Fred I am not at home but if you write again send it there. I am at the Discharge Depot at Buxton Derby. Marked B3 & for Canada. I may yet get back to France where I want to be untill this war is won or I am realy past doing my bit. I still hold the same views that I had when I told Bosman that he had a recruit offering himself 2 minutes after he had given me that information that the age limit had been raised to 45 in B.C. At Purfleet (my Depot) I was without any complaints on my part ordered for a Medical Board with many others. Without any complaints on my part & after telling the M.O. I knew I could do it, I was after a very still exam told to dress. Next, I knew through the Cpl ( a chum from F) that I