Letter to George from mother March 31, 1918

• May 30, 2018 15:42:09 Thomas A. Lingner

  The Shrubbery Hornsey Vale

  Mch 31st, 18  N8

  My dear George,

    Your long letter to hand yesterday arrived fine.

  Surely you excelled yourself - 4 long sheets - we can easily 

  read the thoughts that have been uppermost in your

  mind all this past week. As Dad remarked, you said

  more about the war in this letter than ever we have 

  heard from you. We are glad of your note of optimism

  that you think the Hun will really be brought to a

  stand and then to retreat. We hope it may be soon.

  I think all our reserves in France must already be in

  the line seeing that they are already sending out the

  reserves & the young lads from the homeland. We have

  not heard from Rensal Rise so hope Willie is not on

  draft yet. Its been a dreadful week of suspense for London

  We had a P. C. from Stan again yesterday. He was "quite

  well" on Wed. so its pretty up to date and you may

  be sure we are glad that it is well with our three boys.

  We met Mr. Cook when coming from service tonight & he told

  us there are 90,000 wounded men to be brought across

  & that if war ceased tonight, it will take 3 weeks to

  get those already wounded over to hospital. There must

  have been terrible times out there this week, I don't know

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