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MILTON SOLDIER DESCRIBES HIS TIME ON THE BATTLEFRONT IN LETTER TO MOTHER (From Milton Time Capsules) June 1915 Pt. Leslie Bradley, of the 4th Battalian wrote to his mother June 3 at Hornby. "We are having a bit of a rest just now, a few miles back of the trenches. This country looks very pretty now. They certainly have everything I ever saw eaten for growing crops. The growth is very fast' The clover is now ready to be cut, and a very heavy crop it is. Fresh garden stuff can be got anywhere now and I see some peas in blossom. A Burlington man and I had just finished burying an unknown soldier behind our trenches the other day and made a rough little cross for a mark, when whiz bang we were over in our dugout in the fraction of a moment, but it was close. It just smashed the cross up into kindling wood and dug a huge hole alongside ready for the next man. However, we were lucky not to have another man to put into it . . . .