No 10 Con. Camp
France
13.11.17
Dear May
There’s not much news today. I am still floating around the Convalescent camps but at present am in the Hosp. tent with a sprained toe. We had a bit of a sports meeting & I had a go at the obstacle race & some how managed to give my toe a bit of a kink. Next day I couldn’t get my boot on so the Dr put me into the Hosp. tent & I’ve been in bed ever
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since but don’t expect to be here for more than a few days. Strange to say that out of 4 of us in the final of the obs. race two of us are in here with sprains & when they came to dish out the prizes 4 of them came to the Hosp. tent. My share was a rather decent little pocket knife. This camp is quite near the sea & would be a good place to be in the summertime but just now it is pretty bleak & miserable. Before I left the last camp I got into boulonge for an hour
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or so one evening & had a look round but most of the places were in semidarkness & the shop windows are all dark. It seems to be a decent sort of town & I will try to get a daylight visit there before I leave. I don’t think I told you that there is a cousin of Will Allen’s in our Coy. His name is Punch MacDougall, at least that is what he is called. I think his initials are A.S. but I don’t know his right name. He has been in the Coy for some months but I just found out quite recently that he was related to the Allens.
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My first Xmas parcel arrived today – a lovely big box of chocolate & a Xmas card from Averil. It was posted Aug 10 & was sent on here from the Coy. The last letters I got from N.Z. were dated July so there must be a bundle of them floating around somewhere. It’s just two years today since we left Wellington. Although it was the “13th” I can’t complain of my luck but I won’t be sorry when the job’s done.
Love to All
Len
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Have just had a note from Mark. He Says Lieut. Frank Marshall has joined our Battn.
