Letter to Mother from Somewhere in Flanders

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S.W. in Flanders 
7–11–17

Dear Mother:–

I guess I have the job at last, I am going on stretcher bearers course now, I won't be away from the battn, but I have got a job that I feel needs some one that will get out and work a man may not last long, but he has the same chance as the other boys The only duty is to give aid to the wounded we don't do any carring of the stretchers stretcher parties do that all the time, Young McConnel Eulas nephew was killed this trip in S. Bearer he was a dandy fellow 21 yrs.

I have tried a lot of things since I have been in the army and to a certain extent made a success of each. I could take up any of them again any day. But I beleave this is the work cut out for me, I beleave I will work hard to get ready for the next trip and do my best to get boys all the help they can possibly have, I wont have a rifle or ammunition at all that will be the best part of it I have not shot a man yet and things may turn out so I wont,

Well bye bye Mother dear as ever your loving son
Laurie

[on reverse] Dear Mother I am sending machine gun badge just as I cut it off my arm up the line dirty. I salvaged the badges and belt buckle