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- 17 February 1917 (Creation)
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Letter to Ruth Mallory written from France on 'Feb 17 1917'
He had missed the dispatch rider and so had received no letter from her again and couldn’t give the one he had written to be taken.
He felt like a fish out of water [at his new liaison posting]. As there was no room where the Heavy Artillery were, he was billeted with some Divisional Artillery not far away. Everything was in a horrible muddle and he hoped to return to a more settled way of life in a few days.
The thaw had started in earnest. Wishes he could write a happy and interesting letter. Describes the Commandant who was the one person there who interested him.
The French said plenty of nice things about our army and that the men were magnificent soldiers but they were disappointed and always waiting for us. The French were war-weary, not discouraged but bored. It was a great disappointment that they couldn’t get on faster on the Somme. The French were always ahead of the English, obtaining their objectives and then waiting.
Was thinking of her a lot and wished for a letter from her.
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Written in pencil