on corned beef [illegible] & 3/4 pint of water per man per day, it got monotonous after a week of it.

My crew are wonderful, always ready for any work and doing it cheerfully. If it had not been for them we should have lost the boat the other day; they were up for over 36 hours hauling away on frozen [illegible] and big waves breaking over them the whole time and nary a word of complaint. After the war I am going to go to all the wire rope net factories I can find and blow them up.

I don't like the way things are going on out here at all, but I suppose that we will muddle through somehow.

The Turkish prisoners say that they get [illegible] for every Tommy they about & 10 for every officer, but they [illegible] about themselves if the kill one of our staff officers. I can quite believe it.

Best of love & write soon, I should not get tired if you wrpte me a letter every the clock struck.

Yours ever

Jack Codrington

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