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- 14 November 1916 (Création/Production)
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Letter to Ruth Mallory written from France during the Battle of the Somme, 'Nov 14 1916' [he has written 1914 but it is actually 1916]
Speculates about when he might get leave and how best to spend it so he could see family and friends.
Had been busy. Yesterday they started firing at 5.45am and today at 6.45am. Yesterday’s operation on the Ancre appeared to have been a success. Had not been content with life lately. He had spend too long making arrangements to avoid discomfort that he had got into the habit of thinking too much about comforts and living in a spiritually lazy way. He got a wonderful lot of sleep there and liked his bed too much.
He had head from his mother who had not yet received his letter thanking her for the waistcoat and he wonders if it is at the bottom of the Channel.
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He has written on the back of the last page of the letter in pencil 'Mackey reports no enamelled wire. Halifax says report when ammunition gets down to about 350'