only thing is to clear all civilians from the fighting area.

It is beginning to get cold now frost ice and snow, getting up at 5 am is rather chilly work.

Would you please send me another pair of putties not Fose's a finer closer stronger woven kind if possible; also a small tin of tooth powder.

I hope you have money in hand, I would send £5 pound note but I am

BC Archives, MS-0455 Box 1 File 1 MEARES, Cecil Henry, 1877 – 1937. Victoria; traveler, British military officer. Predominantly selected letters and cards from Meares to his fiancee, Lola Spengler, 1914 – 1918.