have all gone to pot, so I am waiting to take ship to the West Indies for [you?] 8 weeks + if that if successful I shall be fit to go to the front in July. But in Nov must go South again. I won't forget about the death's head hat, but will have it disinfected before I send it over. Hope I shoot the owner myself! I was sick at having to leave the 13th Div R.A. I had been on the staff since Nov + getting on all right + [-uck?] a [tof?] hole lot of fellows. You

BC Archives, MS-0089 / Box 1 / File 3 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver / Correspondence inward, 1915