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3 June 1916

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8th Queens

B. E. F.

3. 6. 1916.

My dear Father,

Many thanks for sending of the typewriter & for the note about using it.  I will let you know how it goes when we get it but it sounds as if it is just what we want.  I am telling Cox to send you a cheque, which you should get shortly.  I am much obliged to you for your trouble.  The tie has also arrived but Mother will no doubt provide for that one out of my money.  I have also got a Strand and other papers from Cecily.  I hear the Bosch got into the trenches we last occupied in the salient last night.  I fancy the authorities will be pretty sick with their defenders as they are anything but unimportant.  However the latest news this evening is that he is being bombed out again, so I hope all is well.  Certainly things appeared to be very lively up there last night.  However the liveliness has not extended as far as this, and things are very quiet here, with a lovely summers day & a fresh breeze.  I see Alan’s name in the paper to-day.  You said that he was grazed by a bullet &

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then returned to the fight, from which I conclude that he is in this Vimy show as I don’t know of any other fighting going on at the moment.  Possibly he was touched by a stray behind the lines somewhere, as there are plenty of them about & it is behind the lines that most bullet wounds are caused when there is no strafing going on.

Please make it quite clear on your envelopes which Battn. mine is as there are others not far away & I see we are getting some of their letters & perhaps they are getting ours.  I can’t say I’ve missed any yet but it is well to make sure.

Love to all

Jack.

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8th Queens

B. E. F.

3. 6. 1916.

My dear Father,

Many thanks for your letter.  If it’s nightingales you are looking for you should come out here.  The birds haunt the place in flocks & make such a row that one has to shout to make oneself heard – the loudest Minnie is as nothing compared to one which disports itself outside my tent when we are in Brigade reserve & barks at me like a dog all night.

Peace reigns over the land at the moment though they appeared to be in trouble round Hooge way during the morning as the guns were going like anything.  Did I tell you the story of our Divisional G. O.C. who made a pleasant little speech at the official opening of our Cinema the other day & directly he had finished the padre who runs it got up & said “To-morrow night we shall have Charlie Chaplin.”  Unfortunately only a few of them appreciated the remark.  I see they are going to beard cousin Bertie in his den at the W. O.  I wonder who the brave spirits are

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& what he will say to them.  something fairly pointed I expect. Please thank Cecily for Mrs. B. of New York.  I will let you know about the records when I have heard them, meanwhile I am writing to various firms about a gramophone for our canteen & I will find the list of records very useful.

Love to all

Jack.


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