| Transcript |
- [Upper left:] Copy
[Centre:] Dear Folk
[Upper right:]
Dec 31st 1915
Rest Camp
Lately I haven't written you regularly. It
is not that there has not been anything to write
about, but because we have been busy every
minute.
We came out of the trenches on Boxing day
& spent two days at the billets & then marched out
here & established as rest camp. Our christmas day
therefore was spent in the trenches, with nothing occurring
to make it different from any other day!
except perhaps, an extra [illegible] in the morning.
Last christmas many <sup>un</sup>usual things happened, men [met?]
& fraternized across the trenches, & we were looking forward
this time for some little incident of that kind, to happen
to relieve the monotony of trench life. But all intercourse
was forbidden & nothing happened.
One of our chaps showed himself, in spite
of orders, & as peeping up, saw a German standing
head & shoulders above the trench & they waived to one
another & our chap held up a jar of rum & then a
few more chanced their heads, above the parapet until
there were quite a few men on both sides. Then, a
sargeant-major, of ours took a shot at one of them
thro a loophole - a dirty thing to do, treacherous and
unsportsman-like that, of course, put a sudden
end to things. After than, it was'nt safe to put
so much as a finger above the parapet & they
lay in waiting & got two of our men in that part
of the line, who accidentially exposed theselves a moment
|
|---|
