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0305 hours

ON ACTIVE DUTY

October 16/43
R201688 Hennessy J.A.
#4 B & G School
Fingal Ontario

Dear Mother:

I received your weekly letter yesterday as usual and was surprised to find it such a long one. You usually write a very short letter. Oh well I suppose there was more news than usual.
I can hardly wait to get my hands on that cake you are sending me it seems a long time since I get eats from home. The only trouble

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with cake is that it breaks up very easily, on account of the way they handle it on the trains. Cookies and sweet buns etc would be much more convenient don't you think. Its too bad Lucy's parcel got sidetracked for she always sends a very nice parcel.
I am writing for my "B" grouping on the 25, 26, or 27th day of this month and if I pass alright my L.A.C. will come into effect too. It usually takes a month or so for the L.A.C. to come through

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through. I am now getting $1.65 a day and with the "B" I will get $1.75 and with the L.A.C. tacked onto that it will amount to about $2 per day. As you know promotion is terribly slow in ground crew especially in the A.E.M., A.F.M. and Electricians. A person with no trade at all will get his L.A.C. within six months of enlistment, but we have to wait oftentimes a year or more. Im not kicking though because I'm having a grand

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time.
Starting tonight or last night rather I have been detailed as hanger guard and have to stand a thirteen hour watch from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. . Gost but the time passes slow. I'll be finished with it after seven nights have passed by. My furlough is coming the first of November but I don't think I will get home. However at Christmas I'll be getting a weeks leave and I'll be sure to be home then.
Answer soon
Love
James

Envelope:

Canadian Y.M.C.A. logo left hand side
Post mark on four cent stamp is Fingal ONT
OC 16
43

Mrs. P.J. Hennessy
West Bathurst
New Brunswick


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