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The fell owe who dressed him told me the wound was high up on the right shoulder, close to the joint in front. He hied quite a deal before they oould put a dressing on hut was otherwise O.K.
So you needn’t feel alarmed, for he has what we call a peach of a Blighty. Expect a few lines from him any day now, And I might add that one of his squad told me the first words the kid said were "Thank God Bred is out of it".. I thanked God too when he came through with nothing worse than a trip to Blighty for the winter. I’ll miss him all right, hut he’s far better off over there than here. Only wish I was going over with him.
Am not going to enter into any details of what we had to go through this trip up the line. Suffice to say that the Somme was a almost a picnic in comparison, both as regards mud and shelling,
I’m sick oftalking shop anyway, so I’ll change the subjeot.
Am not doing any work now that we've pulled out of the line. When I last wrote I was working in the main dressing room as a general all round handy man. Helping the dressers, cutting shoes and putties off wounded men, removing personal belongings from their clothes, keeping the place clean were just a few of my multifarious duties, How’d I do it with bad feet? Well, I was wearing low rubber shoes that I bought in Paris, so managed it all right, though they did hurt a bit. It was a case of everybody dig in, so even if I didn’t stick it up the line, I think I did my bit by putting in twelve or more strenuous hours in the dressing room.
Salvaged a dandy rain coat one day. No buttons on it, and acouple of small holes in the back, but that will be easily remedied,: Just the rig for a wet winter. Also inherited a dandy "British Warme from the kid’s pack. Had one already that I salvaged at Noeux les x Mines when we were on the Loos front, but his was a better one so I • handed mine on to Jock Levoy. A British Warmer- in case you don’t - know- is a knee-length overcoat, lines with wool, double breasted, with a large turn over collar, which when turned up entirely covers the ears. They are only issued to transport men, and are far and away warmer than the ordinary issue. You see your angel son has already put in one winter over here, so knows what is good for him to enablehim to put in this one as comfortablaas possible, \y
Your two parcels for my birthday came along the evening before (. the kid came down, but unfortunately your letters of Sept. 25th
and October 2nd didn’t arrive till the next day, so I wasn’t able to hand them on to him. As soon as I hear from him however, I’ll send them along, for I know how he’ll appreciate them. I told the kid that I had a parcel for him from home, but as naturally he couldn’t take it along with him, why he handed it to me. Thanks very very much for your "many happy returns of the day", but I'm sure if you knew how I spent the day you’d not wfeh me any happy returns of it.
Our divieion "Went over" that morning, and what we went through that eventful day will have to be told "apres He guerre". But to get back to those parcele- figuratively speaking- for at the time of writing they are nonexistent. They were fine. The biscuits were
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