Presents to our Soldiers.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XXII, Issue 3790, 12 April 1916, Page 2

Presents to our Soldiers.

LETTER FROM A CANTER. BURY BOY, MissCryer, Southbridge, has received the following letter from Private W. J, Doyle, Main Body, 13th Canterbury Infantry Battalion, and has kindly placed same at our disposal for insertion :—. ■•' It is with much pleasure I write you these few lines just for old time's sake, as I found your address in a packet of gift cigarettes I I thought it would be no harm in doing so. "At present we are having a rest away from the firing line, but miles

.way from, any town, on the sandy. desert alongside the Suez Canal, and do not know how long it will bo before we are in the.trenches again, but hope it will not be long, so that we may have the opportunity of having a big smack with the enemy and finishing up with them once and for all, so that our boys will get back to the land they love and their dear ones. 111 \bave been with the forces from the very first day that they called for men and have bad some very trying times, but have not been unfortunate enough to be wounded yet, although, I was away sick at Malta for a few weeks. One hardly knows what to write about, and I am sure war news is no good to you, for by the papers that come from New Zealand I notice nothing else but war. I thank you for the cigarettes and for the kindness you have shown towards our boys."