WW II Letters Home – Robinson / Marsh Family
From: Pte. A.L. Robinson A4509
#1 Plat. H.Q. Coy
Royal Canadian Regiment
Canadian Army Overseas
To: Miss Helen Marsh
Date of letter: March 4, 1943
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Postmark: Field Post Office 310, Royal Canadian Regiment, B Company, C.A.S.F. 08 Mar 43 To: Miss Helen Marsh, Dresden, Ontario, Canada
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Thursday, March 4/43
Dear Helen,
Well, I got your letter yesterday and as I am on duty tonight thought it would be a good time to answer it. It is eleven o’clock at night now and I gave got to stay awake all night to look after the phone here. I am getting sleepy all ready. So, by the time morning comes I will probably be ready to go to bed.
You were talking about going to see “Mrs. Miniver” (the show) in your letter. I saw it in camp about a month and a half ago and thought it was really good. I also saw “How Green Was My Valley” which I also thought was very good. Gee, I wish I had some of that ice cream that you were talking about, when you ate a whole pint by yourself. Well, I will have to start looking for a Xmas present for Leola now, and I will see what I can do for you also. No, I am not sorry I joined the Army as I have had quite a few different experiences and look at the different places I have seen. Anyway, I would be in it now and I would rather be a volunteer than a trainee anyway. “And while over I am over here I don’t have you teasing me all the time.” Well, I received the cigarettes from Catherine day before yesterday and they sure were appreciated as I was smoking “Limey” fags at the time and those Canadian ones sure tasted swell after what you can get over here. I have been writing letters all day long. I received seven of them yesterday and I had to write and thank Catherine for the cigarettes and I had a letter the other day from one of the Wabash boys (Don Holmes). He wants me to try and look him up if I can.
We have been doing a lot of marching the last two or three weeks and my feet have got some big blisters on them which don’t feel so good, but they are starting to get a little better and I think we have settled down for a while now. I hope so anyway.
Gee, you should see the house I am living in now. A great big place with electric heaters, bathrooms up and downstairs, built in bath tubs and everything. All I lack now is a feather bed and everything would be complete. I have even got a radio in the office here, it is playing now.
Well, I can hear the boys up overhead tonight. Some of them are going over now and must be taking old Jerry over another load of fine crackers, you know the kind that make a big bang. Well, I will close for now. Hoping to hear from you soon again.
Love, Allan P.S. Don’t flirt with Buster too much.
