Sunday Weather remains good also observation. heavy bombardment and raiding parties last night Today comparatively quiet Church Parade this morning, after, was inoculated and now off for 36 hours Sent O. Pip today Am well
Thirty-six hours to recuperate from the inoculation. Let’s hope that Percy does as well as Jack McTague did. He got his shot on June 12th, and reported the next day that he suffered only “a little stiffness in the arm.”
The O.Pip is “published monthly ‘Somewhere in France’ by the 58th Battery, C.F.A., weather, wind, and war permitting.” (1) “Monthly” is something of an exaggeration: the latest edition is only the third, and by now the editors have dropped any numbering system, indeed, any date. The Paris Number1, as it is called, has been compiled by its editorial team in 
France, printed in London by King & Jarrett of Blackfriars, and shipped back to France.
It arrived in its editor’s hands last night, so today he had a “fine ride” delivering copies to all the batteries and the Ammunition Column as well. (2)
Percy made annotations in the copy he sent Janie. 
Jack McTague is writing another letter today, again to his mother. “I think I told you in my last letter,” he reported, “that the underwear had arrived. I put one suit on about five days ago, by a little graft got a brand new shirt from the bath, had my breeches and tunic disinfected, put on a clean pair of socks, and haven’t been bothered by a louse since. Some record that. Talk about feeling like a man again, after that change I felt I was stepping high.”
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1 It is the Paris Number because Archie Wills, the editor, was lucky enough last March to get a leave which allowed him a visit to the City of Light – even if he was ordered back to his unit before his leave was up. “Fritz is advancing,” he commented on his return; “Things seem a bit serious.” (4)
Jack McTague’s letters are generously made available by his great-nephew Timothy McTague.
(1) The O.Pip. Paris Number. [June 1918]. 3.
(2) Wills, Archie. Diary. June 30, 1918. Archie Wills Fonds, University of Victoria Archives. Copyright 2007, University of Victoria.
(3) S.O.S. The O.Pip. Paris Number. [June 1918]. 4.
(4) Wills, Diary. March 28, 1918.
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