Private T. M. Williams, of Pantyffynnon, who is with the Oxford and Bucks. Light Infantry in France , writes to Mr. Rhys Owen, Dynevor Arms, an interesting letter in which he states : —
“Hope you are all in the best of health the same as me and Jim Barlow and Edwin Davies, Cumbach. We are all in the pink, so far.
We have just come out of the trenches after being in them for four days; but it was very cold in the night, as we are having white frost here. We have had a very hard time with the Germans, and they had a bad time with us; we lost a few men, killed and wounded, out of our regiment from Swansea .
The Germans blew up a mine, which gave us bad time, but we blew up two or three, which gave them a bad time; so you can see how it is going on.
We have come out for a spell. We were not long after we came over here before we went into the trenches; but the Germans are getting it awful. We can't get things here the same as in our own country. It was about fifteen yards from our trenches to the Germans in one place where me and Jim were. The thing we have got to do is to keep our heads down.
I hope everything is going on all well in Pantyffynnon. Give my best regards to all the boys of Pantyffynnon, and I hope to hear from you before long. We can't understand the French people. I wish I could speak French. Our guns do work well.”
