WW II Letters Home – Marsh / Robinson Family
From: Pte. A. L. Robinson A4509
No. 6 Coy, No. 1 C.S.R.U (Canadian Signals Reinforcement Unit)
To: Miss Helen Marsh
Date of letter: September 3, 1942
Envelope
| Postmark: No. 1 Cdn. Sigs. Rein. Unit, 4 Sep 1942
To: Miss Helen Marsh, Dresden, Ontario, Canada
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Thursday, September 3/42
Dear Helen,
Received your letter last night and was glad to hear from you. We are having a holiday today – the beginning of the fourth year of the war. Everyone had to go to church this morning and they gave us the rest of the day off, so I thought I had better get busy and catch up on my writing. It is raining today again as usual. I haven’t seen much fog over here yet but as it is starting to get around towards fall we are getting a little and they say that in the winter that is all you can see over here. I am getting along fine on my course and expect to be on my exams in another week, which will only take a few days IF I pass them.
I suppose the canning factory will be going again by now. Elmer Jackson from Dover Centre and I have finally gotten in touch with one another and I am going to try and get a weekend some of these times when he is on leave and see if I can hunt him up. The old town must be pretty dead now is it with everyone in the army and leaving to work in the factories. It won’t be long though until everyone is back home again and when I do get back I am never going outside of Kent county again.
When I got this letter last night I thought maybe I would get the parcel you spoke about this morning, as there has been a lot of mail coming in the last couple of days. But maybe it will be here tonight or tomorrow. I hope so anyway. Well, l I hope you got your extra month of holidays. I suppose your Dad and Roy are getting ready for duck hunting again, for it won’t be long now until they will be at it again, if they are not too busy.
Well I can’t think of anymore right now so will close for now. Write soon. Hoping you are all well.
Love, Allan
P.S. Get those pigs and chicken good and fat and have lots of dill pickles and sauerkraut ready.
