Dear Mother:

September 20, 1916 "

C" Coy, 170th Battn.

Camp Borden, Ontario

Things are beginning to happen around here. We are getting a draft of 250-300 men from the 201st- to which Reg Topp belongs and practically promised overseas by Oct. 15th. There are nine battalions going and we are rated as the fifth in efficiency. The new men will bring us pretty well up to strength.---- I have tonsillitis but have been on all parades and the dope they gave me is cleaning my throat up. We have just been issued with our overseas kit, -belts, straps, buckles; all kinds of old trash representing one of Sam Hughes mistakes. It is the equipment we will carry over to England with us but not to France. They will give us something more modern and pile this up for the use of junior battalions in Canada.

So Jim P. was up there for a few days. He seems happy these days- at least for him. Have you got over your trip to Toronto? Did Steve show you the account of our trench warfare 170 vs. 177? Everybody is in an uproar over new equipment, promises of overseas, the new draft; it is just impossible to write.

Yours constantly, Cannon