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R201688 HENNESSY J.A.
#5 MANNING DEPOT
LACHINE P.Q.

May 26/43.

Dear Mother:

I wrote you last week but I didn't get any answer yet. I kind of expected a letter today but I will probably get it to morrow, at least I hope so. The time is passing very quickly up here. I can hardly believe I have been here a week already, especially since we are confined to barracks.
Our bunch are on kitchen duty today and all this week. I washed dishes and scrubbed floors all day. We have to get up at 4:30 in order to have our barracks cleaned, ourselves shaved and be in the kitchen at 5.45.
There is quite a bit of work to do up here, the place has to kept perfectly clean at all times but after five oclock our time is our own. We mostly go down to the

Page 2 gymnasium until eight oclock and then go to see the moving pictures which are on every night. All in all we are having a good time.
One of our officers a Sargeant Major has a funny French accent and he is always yelling at us about one thing or another, and the other night there was an Amateur show here in our recreation hall, so one of our fellows named Daugherty went up on the stage and did an imitation of him. He did it so well that he received first prize. It was terribly funny.
This is all for now and I will wait for a letter before writing again which I hope will be to morrow.
Love to all
James

Envelope:
Postmarked Lachine
addressed to Mrs. P.J. Hennessy
West Bathurst
Gloucester Co.
N.B.