Many thanks for letter of last night also thank Janey for parcel and letter which I also received last night.
We are out of the trenches again. This time we were very lucky we only had two knocked out and both of them the last day we were in. These are very funny trenches not like the English. We are dug in whereas the English trenches are built up off the ground with sand bags. It is funny being in these as there is practically no rifle fire, but shells we get in dozens all day long but am pleased to say the French who are behind with their 75 guns give them more than they can send back. These guns are fine - you will no doubt have heard or read of them. They are the finest guns I have ever seen, it is a treat to see them dropping the shells on the German trenches at night.
We are billeted in a nice barn and we can bivouac in the orchard if the weather is hot. We have a fine platoon officer now. When we came out of the trenches the other night he saw we were all right and had somewhere decent to sleep, before he turned in himself. In the barn they had booked for our platoon there was not room for us all but he soon found us another place.
I am pleased to hear Mother is improving and hope she will soon be about again.
I was surprised to hear John had been put into a new Battn. If that is so he will not join us again, but of course it may only be for a time. I am sorry to hear Joe has not been sent home to make munitions.
The weather is very changeable some days scorching hot and the rest pouring with rain. However we are quite used to it now. I am trying to get a ring that the French soldiers make out of the nose caps of German shells.
Thanks for the photograph it is all right. Well I think this is all the news so must close, hoping all are well as it leaves me in the pink.
Your loving brother Billie.
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