Letters From the Front

Dated: October 4, 1915

LETTERS FROM THE BOYS AT THE FRONT

In Billets Somewhere in Belgium, Oct. 4, 1915.

Dear Mr. Harris¹,--

Just a line from the boys from Burlington.  We have received our first baptism of fire, as we have had a spell in the trenches, but are now out in reserve billets for a little rest.  We can still hear the crack of the rifles and machine guns, and are easily within range of the guns, if they desired to move us.  I have just been watching the flares the mines are sending up.  They illuminate the front nearly all night.  It rained all the time we were in the trenches, and as a matter of fact, it rains nearly all the time over here.  We have had a white frost or two, making it kind of chilly at night.

All the boys are well.  I suppose you know that Geo. Graham was left in England, owing to the fact that he had hardly recovered from his sickness, but the rest of us are all together yet.

Well, I must close for now, hoping business is looking up again in the old town.  I remain, as ever,

On behalf of boys from Burlington,

Clifford Carter