Feature Letter of May 23rd, 2024
McLellan, Ivan Donald
[From a letter by Sapper Ivan McLellan to his grandmother in Komoka, Ontario. Note: “postum” is a beverage made from powdered roasted grain that was promoted by the Post Cereal Company as an alternative to coffee. ]
Dear Grandma:
Received your box Sunday, and was very glad to get it. The gum, candy, cookies and most of the cake is gone. It’s pretty hard to get good hot water for the postum or oxo. We don’t have any fires in the huts so we could heat the water. They are very stingy with the hot water at the cook house, and then its not always hot enough, so if you send another don’t bother with the postum and oxo. The candy was fine. It was good and hard, and to break off a piece I was using my service knife, and hammering it with one of my heavy army shoes. Well I took the blade off, and will have to go on a clothing parade to get another. Everything was in fine shape when I got it, and was very good.