France Jan. 22 1917
Mrs TV Martyn
RR no 3 Springfield
Ontario Canada

Dear sister

Just a few lines to say that I am fine and dandy a still kicking around and hope this letter finds you like wise we are getting real winter wather now there is about six inches of snow and the ground is froze quite hard and we read a the mud for a whale but it is a hard gob to keep our feet warm as we have a lot of standing a round to do.

The last letter I got from home said that the snow had all gon and that and that they where using the wheels a gain there are now sleighes over here the old soldiers say that this is the most snow since they came it snow all one night and all the next day

We are out of the trenches now and I am not sorry for it would be pretty cold now they are a lot better than our last billets but the smoke is something ferce just now it is hard [?] nose there is a man in our plattoon from Donville from the last Battalion formed in Holdoman.  He just came.

I got a letter and pair of socks from Jack MacNair the socks where scent from his mother for me he is still in england he will miss the most of the winter all right.

It is pretty hard walking now as the roads are very icey now but it is better than mud I think I will have to close as news is scarce and I have not got much mail lately so will say good bye

your same old brother
Oscar
B. coy. Not A.