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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 16 of 19.

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  • [start page] - 16 - de penser a tew freres qui etaient pour toi plus que cela encore, des amis intimes, inseparables, partageant les memes aventures, les memes aspoirs. Vous aviez l'un pour l'autre la meme complaisance, le meme besoin de la compagnie l'un pour l'autre, une inalterable bonne humeur at indulgence reciproque," --- Yes, it is so true, Pumps, I do Miss them simply terribly. I know you must suffer more than any of us, and I hardly dare think how broken-hearted you must be, I am grateful above all that you are so brave and strong in the face of our awful sorrow, and I am grateful too, that you have dear Maman Alice and are father of a large family and so have others of your own to turn to in your <del>gride</del> grief. Often I think, Pumps, what a satisfaction it would be to you to see how well remembered and how deeply respected is their name in this Battalion. There was nothing in the C.O.'s letter about them that was over-stated: Guy and Paul were absolutely loved, nor am I allowed to think otherwise, for the' (sic) allusions to their terrible fate are left often half unsaid, it is quite obvious to me that Guy and Paul were held to be the bravest of the brave in our Battalion and were loved and regretted to an altogether exceptional extent: and their sympathy touches one and it is plain that they understand that no man could suffer a greater bereavement. So many yarns I hear from all quarters of the humourous things that happened where Guy and Paul were concerned, and especially Guy: but of their actual death no details are known, there is no one who now actually survives who saw them killed. Still, it seems evident that poor Paul fell first (not Guy), and all are convinced that poor Guy could have saved himself and that he practically threw his life away in his grief [end page]
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