Just a line to let you know that I am absolutely O.K.  I sent a cable the other day saying that wound was very slight.  Hope that you got it and also believed it for I assure you it is quite the truth.

Except for the odd headache which is only to be expected I am alright.  I don’t know whether I’ll get to England or not.  Personally I hope not.  I’ll get home as soon as I get out of here anyway so what ought I to care.  Well it still looks as if we were winning doesn’t it.  Well I sincerely hope so.  I hope that it is finished this year though I hae mi doubts, still it is good to even hope so.  I am very glad that Wilson isn’t letting himself be kidded into doing anything foolish by having an armistice.  That would be the height of foolishness.  They want to trim the Hump first and I think they will too.

Well you know I haven’t got an awful lot of news, there isn’t much to tell being here.  I hope my mail doesn’t go astray.  I wrote to my battery telling them to keep all my kit etc. but to send the mail along.  I expect that the mail will arrive just as I go somewhere else and then I don’t know what will happen to the mail.

Naturally I haven’t heard from home for some little time now.  I hope that you are all well and that the Xmas trade promises to be ??? & brisker.  That would be fine eh!

Do you realize that Leslie and I have been away two years now.  Isn’t it a ???  I didn’t think I would be away more than two years.  But still it looks like a little more than two years doesn’t it?  OH well as long as we are winning why worry.