30th Reserve Battn. C.E.F.

(2nd British Columbia Regt)

with them 2 nights in billets and then went up into the trenches north of Ypres. Four days later I got the 'blighty' that sent me to Rouen for a month, then over to a place near Salisbury, the seat of the Radnors, where I spent about 10 days and then got home. About the third week of June I started to walk without crutches, went up to town, and was promptly put back to hospital for an operation. This was followed after a week or two at home by another in August, again in September, and October. In January I left Guys Hospital and went to King [illegible] Home at Brighton but returned to hospital after a month for a final operation. Then back to Brighton again and at last got passed for light duty 3 weeks ago and here I am just about 12 months after my last visit here. Six operations in 10 months including the one I had on my leg in Rouen: not a bad record, what? The part of my anatomy affected was one not usually mentioned in the best society but as you are an old pal I don't mind telling you it is not a thousand miles from the cushions that nature has provided us with to sit down on. The malady is called fistula by the surgical authorities but