On purple Y.M.C.A. headed notepaper.

28 May 1916

Reply to A Company 3^rd Bat Leicester Regt.

Stationed at Patrington Nr. Hull

Dear Mr Walters,

            I am sending you a photo this time I hope you will like it.  I am still in the best of health.  We are having some splendid weather.  I am starting on my musketry course tomorrow so I shall soon be ready for the other side.  I think the end of the war is in sight don’t you.  I expect you know Jim Heighton is now firing is course at Strensall and I guess he will just about home at Whitsuntide, it will be my turn in about a month’s time.  We had a 24 mile march on Friday there were only two of our company fell out, that is the kind of thing I like, it is fine marching through the country but I don’t think this part of the country is as nice as ours.  We have a chaplain attached to our battalion now so we have a drumhead service every Sunday morning now, it is fine.  Since I wrote to you they have sent 3 drafts to the front and another goes on Tuesday.  There is a man names Moore who lives at the “Top of the Dumps” going with them.  I hope things are going on alright at Whitwick.  Do you still get a good crowd at the Men’s Service.  I often think of you there.  I have had some happy times there, which I hope are not finished yet, that is if God grants me the luck to come through alright.  I was so sorry to hear you have had so many deaths in the parish lately.  I dare not tell you anything about our camp so I have no more news to tell you, so I must close hoping you and Mrs Walters are in the best of health.

I am

Yours Faithfully

J.W. Weston.

Please remember me to all.

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