Nov. 20, 1917 Dearest Mother Another week has gone by and still no word from Canada. I don't know what to make of it; ofcourse I know you have written so the letters must be either at the bottom of the sea or held in the post office somewhere. As you probably have noticed I have changed my address. After satisfying the instructors that I could handle an Avro properly they sent me down to this camp-TurnHill- near a town called Market Drayton. I arrived here only yesterday and as the weather is "dud", i.e. no good, have done no flying as yet. I expect to go on a machine known as a Sopwith two seater in order to get used to the Rhone Engine which is used in scouts. From Sopwith I shall probably go to scouts of different types, finishing in a DH5 a very hard machine to fly. They do not use these DH5's in France now as they did not prove a success,so, from DHf's most of the pilots who prove efficient are given SE5's . These are the best of our scouts, so if I am not shifted