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Glenbow Archives (M-742-7) Harold Mcgill's First World War Letters, January 8-December 6, 1917 Glenbow Archives (M-742-7) Harold McGill's First World War letters, January 8-December 6, 1917 France, Jan 8, 1917. Dear Miss Griffis;- A few minutes ago I was standing in my dugout with my back to the fire thinking very hard things of you, I really was. I was just about to sit down and send you a red hot letter in spite of the chilly atmosphere of the dugout, for it must be nearly a month since you wrote to me previous to your letter just received. As I remarked I was just making your ears burn when an orderly came in with your very nice and flattering letter. Of course we all like a little flattery and yours was so nicely given that I could not feel otherwise that pleased. Many thanks for your congratulations. I am afraid the people at home attach too much importance to these decorations. Sometimes they are awarded to the deserving ones and sometimes ------ . Gen. Byng our corps commander held a battalion inspection the day after Christmas and presented the ribbons to those awarded decorations. Just at present we are in support trenches but it will soon come our turn for the front line again. The weather is atrocious, cold with high wind and rain nearly every day. We had a much better Christmas this season than last. Fortunately we were out of the trenches in reserve and billeted in huts. The weather was fairly well behaved although we had some rain. All the men had a good Christmas dinner including turkey, plum pudding, beer, nuts, candy, etc. We had previously ordered 500 kilos of turkey. We made a contract for them and the dealer shipped them from Normandy. I must say that the French know how to raise good turkeys. The tables were set in the YMCA hut and we hired dishes from the French civilians. We had to divide the dinner into four sections, one for each company. Two were held on Christmas day and two the day after. The band rendered musical programs during the dinners and each night put on a minstrel show which was really not at all bad. We had a good dinner in Bn. Hq. Mess but most of our pleasure was derived from seeing the men have a good feed and enjoy themselves for once. It is very good of you to send my sister the magazines. I am afraid she sometimes becomes a little homesick and lonely. She has just returned from having leave in England. She reached her unit Christmas night after spending nearly all day on the train from Calais. She should have crossed over from England on Dec 23 but there was a terrible storm that day and the Channel boats were held up. Please accept my thanks for the papers and magazines you so often send. Everything you send is new to me except the Saturday Evening Post. I get this regularly every week. A friend of mine at Johns Hopkins University subscribed for it on my behalf. We are always pleased to see the Calgary papers although some of the things they print about the war are certainly very wide of the mark. I expect to go on leave again about the end of this month. This will likely be my last leave for a time for the dust will be flying rather lively when Spring opens. Please excuse this short letter and do try to write more often. Sincerely yours, Harold W McGill France Jan. 26, 1917. Dear Miss Griffis;- Your letter of Jan 2 reached me 3 or 4 days ago and the next day the box of stationary and good eats arrived. Thank you ever so much. The nuts and raisins were fine, so good in fact that they are all eaten up already. I put them on the table at Bn. Hq. mess a few minutes after they came and the gradual disappearance set in almost at once. We had a bottle of Burgundy for dinner that evening, and this with the contents of your parcel made us think of home again. You will probably recognize this paper. We are having real Winter weather now, colder than anything we experienced last year. There has been quite a depth of snow lying for the past 10 days and the ground is frozen hard. The temperature could not have been much above zero this morning which is very cold for this country. Fortunately we are not in the trenches but in billets in a village behind the lines. It is none too comfortable in billets but I hate to think of what it must be like in the trenches. The day the snow started we marched 10 miles in a thick storm. A very hard wind was blowing and the storm at times looked almost like a blizzard. The roads are now covered with ice and frozen slush. This mess makes very bad going for horses. I have sick parade now at 6:30 AM and this means my getting up at 5:30. My washing water is frozen in the room every morning. I used to think that Canada was a cold country. Our men are sleeping in barns without fires. The most of them are keeping in very good health in spite of the severity of the weather. The guns are growling away every night and day but we are just now pretty well out of the area of shelling. The shells should detonate well on the frozen ground. You have read I presume about the raids the Canadians have been carrying out. These raids must keep Fritz feeling very uncomfortable. A short time ago I thought I should get away on leave before the end of this month but it doesn’t look that way now. I hope though to get away before the end of February for all leave will likely be cancelled when big offensive operations re-open. I heartily sympathize with you in your desire to come out to the war and sincerely hope that I may soon have the pleasure of seeing you in some hospital on this side of the water. Sincerely yours, Harold W McGill France, Feb 2, 1917. Dear Miss Griffis;- Please accept my sincere thanks for the parcel of cake, nuts, etc. which came to hand 3 or 4 days ago. We had the cake for dinner last night and it was a most welcome addition to our mess. Did you make it yourself? I am really very anxious to know. The nuts we gobbled up immediately the box was opened, after the manner of our kind. The apple I am sorry to say was frozen solid, and was still as hard as iron when the parcel reached me. I was going to say that our weather at present reminded one of Alberta but it is really more like Manitoba weather. Everything is still frozen up tight but the winds the past few days have not been so bitter and we get a little sunshine at times. Since writing to you last we have made a days march and are now billeted in another village. I have derived some benefit from the change as there is a stove in the room in my new billet. The people of the village are a kindly lot and are very good to our men in the great majority of cases. One thing I notice about the inhabitants in this part of the country is that they go in for pets to quite an extent especially small dogs. Up in Belgium where we were last winter we never saw a pet dog. Any dog that couldn’t at least earn his living by drawing a cart or working a treadmill wasn’t kept in Belgium. I think it is more or less a sign of good nature in people for them to keep pets. Up in Belgium the people scarcely ever gave our soldiers a pleasant look unless they were trying to sell them something and not often even then. Do you ever see Miss Levick who used to be at the C.G.H.? I ran across her brother the other day in our battalion. Just at present he is laid up with herpes zoster but is not bad enough to go into hospital. Tell Miss Levick if you should happen to see her that if her brother should meet with illness or wounds I shall not forget whose brother he is. No word of leave yet. I thought a short time ago that I would likely be in England at this time but leave has been almost entirely cut off for present. After another month big happenings are liable to begin at any moment and then goodbye to leave until Summer is over. Goodbye for present. Harold W McGill France, March 1, 1917. Dear Miss Griffis;- It was very kind of you to send me this stationary but I do wish you would send me some with writing on it once in a while. It is quite some time since I have heard from you and I am beginning to fear that you had made a start for the war zone and met with a submarine en route. Possibly though some of your letters may have had a swim. There is not very much that I can write you. The things that might be interesting we are not allowed to speak about. Of course the censor lets remarks on the weather pass and I shall tell you something about it.
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