WW II Letters Home – Marsh / Robinson Family
From: Pte. Allan Robinson
To: Miss Olive Marsh
Date of letter: January 7, 1942
Envelope
| Postmark: January 8, 1942, Camp Borden, Ontario,
To: Miss Olive Marsh, Dresden, Ontario
|
Jan. 7/42
Dear Olive:
Well how are you getting along these fine frosty days? Is it very cold down there now? It is really frosty up here and the ground is all covered with ice. I suppose your Dad is doing a lot of hunting now.
We were through the gas chambers yesterday. We marched in them with our respirators on and then we took them off and marched out and was the place really full of tear gas. My eyes were still smarting last night. We have been learning all about the hand grenades for the last couple of days. Tomorrow we are going on an all day route march which is not so pleasant in this sort of weather. I had a chance to go to Barryfield near Kingston on a signal course but I didn’t like the sound of it so I never bothered with it.
I suppose you have got your other porker in the frying pan by now. I don’t think I will be home again before the end of the month. It is so cold up here that the windows have been frosted over for the last three days. When you send my next letter, send it to No. 3 Plt., No. 6 Coy as I changed huts yesterday.
How is your Mother and Helen and everybody else? Have you seen anything of Dad lately? I am in with a bunch of Frenchmen and Indians from up around Sudbury now.
Well, I must close for now. Hoping to hear from you soon.
Lots of love, Allan
