Private W Stamford

Could you please find a small space in your paper, of which I am a frequent reader since out here up to being severely wounded on March 19th with rifle fire, the bullet entering my neck close to my throat and coming out the back. I am very sorry to say I have no use in my left hand at present, but hope to regain it again. I have been admitted into No 1 Canadian General Hospital, G Ward, Army Post Office, Section 11, BEF France. My wife resides in Cambridge Street, St Neots. We had just come out of the trenches the same night as I got bowled over. We were to have had twelve days rest at billets as they call them. I had got safely out of the trenches when my Platoon Officer came up to me and asked me if I would go and guide our Platoon snipers to their billets. The German snipers very soon sniped me with a bullet through me. It might have been far worse. Well, for all that I am hoping to be removed to dear old Blighty in hospital as soon as possible.