Letter To Susan Owen (5)

Discusses censoring letters and the area of the line his Regiment will shortly occupy. Describes his servant, and his Company Commanders. Describes inspecting soldiers' feet for trench-foot, the Victoria Cross, and his own appearance in waders. He concludes by listing some items he would like his mother to send him. This letter includes a code to tell his mother his location (hence the closing comment 'You need not ask where I am. I have told you as far as I can'. The trigger is the word 'mistletoe'. The reader must then record the second letter of the first words on the following lines. This is letter no. 479 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.