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  • 20 February 1917

    France Feb.20/17 Dear Cath: I’ll be jiggered if two weeks haven’t slipped round again since I last wrote you, yet where the time has gone I cannot well make out. It always seems a long time from one Sunday night to another (for our mail usually comes in then) but when it comes to writing…

  • 8 February 1917

    France Feb 8/17 Dear Cath: Yours of Jan 14th to hand – so glad to hear from you again. I’m still on the job & except for a slight cold, am enjoying the best of health. I’ve been getting some rather startling news from home lately. First of all I hear that Binks & Marie…

  • 26 January 1917

    France Jan.26  Dear Cath:Something seems to tell me it’s nearly two weeks since I wrote you last but it wasn’t because I had the chicken pox. The reason was simply this – instead of writing last week when I should have I put it off one day too long and as luck would have it…

  • 6 January 1917

    #799147 L. Scherer No. 2 Company 15th Batt. Canadian  B.E.F. France Jan. 6, 1917 Dear Cath: On Thurs night I rec’d your letter of Dec. 6 so you see it took it just four weeks & 2 days to make the trip across the blue bubbles. However it was none the less welcome – guess…

  • 24 December 1916

    Somewhere in France Dec. 24 1916. Dear Cath: I’ll be jiggered if this isn’t the 3rd time I’ve started this journal and I hope I’m left in peace now until it is brought to a successful conclusion. In the first place I got yours of Nov. 29 last evening and sat down to answer it…

  • 3 December 1916

    #799147 Pte. L. Scherer No. 2 Company 15th Can. Btn. B.E.F. France Dec 3 1916 Dear Cath: Your letter of Nov. 9th arrived a couple of evenings ago and was it welcome? Oh no! You see we had just come out of the trenches after putting in 12 days there and nothing suits me better…