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View of loose item on ScrpBk1_06-verso: typescript of letter written by Georges Destrubé for his family, May 2-25, 1917. Page 9 of 19.

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  • [start page] - 9 - months ago. I was well received by the family I intended seeing, very good people [illegible] from the invaded part of France (I received letters from them when I was wounded). --- Yes, how vivid and real was the picture at the cross-roads which Guy and Paul had once trod. I could see so plainly Paul's dark intelligent look, and Guy's frank open face, so smiling and so strong. What a tremendous satisfaction and constant joy it was to have them. --- What a powerful support our close union meant to one another, it inspired us with confidence and strenght and a wealth of quiet happiness was in it. We had such interest in one another and respected and understood one another so completely. Our's was a union too good to last: we might have guessed it, yet I never did. --- At least never thought about it. ----- Poor Guy and Paul. Poor Paul the "Sticker" and Guy with the hear of a Viking. -- -- And so we lose the best of our best and now we may only know them from the past, but in the depth of our pain we shall cherish their memory with such pride for we know, as all who knew them, that they lived and died like sportsmen, bringing honour on their name, which is also ours. FRANCE May 15th 1917 Dear Ones, I still have those books of Robert W. Service that belonged to poor old Guy. The poems expressed to the full the spirit of Guy's beloved "North Country" which was so much part and parcel of Guy's life. In that life he found an outlet for his exceptional courage and born love of adventure and found expression for his big generous [end page]
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