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- a week or so "before we did. One of the ambulance drivers was in our unit in Victoria. Saw him in Sandgate quite a few times when we were billet+ed there, then lost track of him, only to bump against him again up here. A despatch rider attached to this unit was a friend of mine, when I wa.s living in Vancouver.
Had a letter from Tom Webster yesterday. He and Reg. are still at Shomcliffe, Hare is wha-t he has to say about Reg's new job.
"Sergt. Hughes is in charge of seme of the wards, and Piute goes tomorrow to work with him. lie has given up his job>in the kitchen, and prefers to render first aid to the patients and others. In faot he started this afternoon. His first job was to chase and catch all the stray oats around the hospital, put them in a sack, then bring them up to the ward and chloroform them.
He got a box with a little hole in it to put the chloroformed rag thru, put the cat in the box, then sat on the lid until the poor beggar snuffed it, eo you oan see he has had a pretty busy afternoon."
Poor old Piute. I sure wish he was here with us, and maybe he doesn't too.-/
Well it is time I went on the job, so will have to shut up shop. Harold is assistant night cook, so I'm due for a cup of cocoa right now.
Best love to you all from
Yours lovingly,
Pred
Somewhere in Belgium,
July 17th, 1916
Dear Sis, -
Your very welcome letter to hand yesterday end as I realize it is some considerable time since I have written you, am losing no time in answering same. Have nothing much to write about,but
will try and tear off a page ir two.
The kid and I are back at the receiving station now after having put in 19 days at the Asylum. We came down last night and were at once put on duty as night stretcher bearers, hours 7 P.M. to 7 A.M. Put in a. good day's work yesterday at the Asylum, and with an all night shift last night, was quite ready to hit the
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