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- of the way down he found that if he kept on he would choke his leg with the lower end, so rather than do the work over, the last pix inchee have teen left open a la riding breeches, hut far more classy. Since then the stitches have separated somewhat, and as he doesn’t bother with puttees, the effeot is somewhat remarkable to say the least. Bill had hard luck too with hie slacks or overalls, before we left "Blighty”. He thought a new issue was due him, so a few days before we left he got busy with his knife, and scratched away at the seat of hie breeches until they were rather thin. Then he spread sand on the floor of the tent, and called 1/ upon Hank and yto help him. I grabbed one leg, Hank the and proceeded to pull him over the floor. Laugh, honest I thought I’d die, especially when the bants gave out in spots, and we refused to let him go. To csp it all, the Q.M. refused to give him a. new pair, eeying they weren’t needed over here. Bill ipn't a swearing man, but he said a thing or two that night,
Haven’t had any mail since coming over here, in fact none of the boys have, although Jim, Goldie and Jno. Greig have received some parcels. There must be a lot of mail somewhere for us. Hope it will be: along before long,
Well, I don’t know that I have anything more to talk about this trip, so will call it a day’s work.
Best love to everybody from
Your loving son, . ,
FRED
Address G.A.M.C.,
B.E.P., c/o Army L.O.,
Prsnoe
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Le Havre, Prance,
Sunday June loth,19l6.
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Lear Mother and Lad,-
Seems to me that once upon a time I had the idea that Sunday was a day of rest. If so, a little resume of today’s doings will I think, bring you to the same conclusion that I have reached,viz. "Its all wrong, Oswald". To begin with, for some unknown ( to us) reason, reveille was blown at 4,30 A.M,, "summer" time, which really meant 3»30 A.M. by regular time. Of course, it being Sunday we "rolled" out of bed with hymns of thanksgiving and praise, just having enough time to have a wash, before the "fall in" blew. Had breakfast at five o’clock, after which we managed to fold our blankets, and straighten the tent up in a sort of fairly tidy state. This being accomplished, and that tired feeling still on us, why we naturally sprawled ourpelves on the floor of the tent
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