Jess sends me a parcel regularly, food, books, socks + toiler paper + also writes regularly.

It seems doubtful if I shall ever be able to write or talk about what we have been through on the Somme (you know I came out the only officer in our Co out of six). The Bn is covered with with glory + wounds.

It is time anyhow that we have experienced a good sample of all the horrors + trials in the first degree which this war can afford - I have a new idea of what men