Private M Byatt 2nd Bedfordshire Regiment
Just a few lines hoping St Neots is looking quite as well as it was before I left on August 8th 1914. I am sorry to say we have had a lot of wet weather last month. I am glad to say the troops have had quite a fine time in the trenches at Christmas time. The Germans came out of their trenches and called out to the Bedford’s to go one at a time half way, and they would come half way, so we stopped firing at them and went half way across to them and had smokes together with them, so they asked us if we would have a game of football with them. We had not got a ball with us, or I think we should have had a game with them.
