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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 3 of 19.

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  • [start page] - 3 - perhaps as often as not were secretly amused. This, and our bolder escapades in Englad was part of our reputation. In spite of the trouble we gave him our Colonel didn't really seem to mind. Perhaps he knew that the most undisciplined and irresponsible at home are not always the least responsible and dependable abroad where such matters really count, perhaps he realised that some, even the most untamed, would yet do him and his battalion credit, perhaps he foresaw in Guy and Paul men on whom he could count one day, even to death, and saw in them that element of high devotion to duty which, alas, was to cost them so great a sacrifice and leave us bereaved. May 5th 1917 I have joined the battalion again - alas, what a remnant. It is pitiful to see: the Battalion has been made upt to strength time after time and yet but a handful remain, and of the old hands - practically nil. I have spoken to you of poor Minty, the last of my close pals, and now he's gone too. His people will be terribly upset and I think of the loss he will be to me personally and how I shall miss his good humour, his perpetual smile and jolly good company. Poor old Minty, - such a reliable, such an excellent fellow. I told his people that he died instantly but I am told he lived two or three hours and suffered much, but they say he was very brave. Something he says comes home to me now, that he said a few weeks before when we were last together and had supper in a cottage [end page]
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