Private J. D. Caves: The Long Journey Home
24 February 1943 Campo 57, Italy
My Dear Mum & Dad,
Your letter written 20 Nov arrived on 18 Feb - Jean's birthday. Here we are all a year older and still so far separated. Surely this must be the last year. We of course get little news that we can rely on here. Waiting however is not so terrible as mail from you helps a lot and many new books have come to hand. There is talk of sending us out working soon. It will be a welcome change and we would be fitter.
You no doubt have seen the names of many of my cobbers killed and dead. I hope that did not start fresh worry on my account. I'm glad that Dick Bennett is safely home. We only knew that he was missing and not with us. I take it he must have been wounded.