Isaac Alexander Mack

THE YOUNGER

Lieutenant of the

11th SUFFOLK REGIMENT

AND LATER

Captain of the

101st TRENCH MORTAR BATTERY

PRIVATELY PRINTED

LETTERS FROM FRANCE.

11th Suffolks,

B.E.F., Monday, January 10th, 1916.

My darling Mother,—

This will probably be a long letter; I hope you will not get bored with it. Please keep this letter and any that follow it, so that at the end of the war I may perhaps achieve fame as the author of "Drivellings of a young Officer at the Front." As I have not got used to the routine out here I will describe all the last few days as they strike me, because probably, when I have been out here a little, everything will become such a matter of course that it will be difficult to give you any idea of what our life is like unless I begin with a good chapter one.