George Douglas Brush, item 90

• May 30, 2018 20:59:29 Thomas A. Lingner

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  yes, like Wesley you were unlucky in being sent so far away from

  London, and we were grievously disappointed when the military

  postcard came marked Bristol, and realized a hundred 

  miles or more separated us still. But the compensation

  was, you were in England with the best of care and sooner

  or later you would get a glimpse of the home faces. Mothers

  letter suggests you inquiring the whereabouts of the hospital

  and an application for permit for two reduced railway fares

  issued by the Dr. as we got from Wesley, and then we must

  make a flying visit. In fact if Aeroplanes were as cheap

  as parlimentary fares we would take an hours trip through the 

  air and drop in the hospital ground and get a peep at you

  a service perhaps will come in your day if it does not in mine.

    By the time you get this I hope that bit of shrapnel

  will be in your hand, under your own eye, instead of close up

  by your spine. I and mother are anxious to know when

  it is so for I suppose until it's out it will not heal. You 

  have not told us where the head wound is? I hope not in the 

  cheek or front Eh! You say your steel helmet protected you

  from the worst and can only understand the head wound to

  be located somewhere as I say in the region of the cheekbone

  or base of the neck. give us further particulars of all

  the places! Frank Barton this morning gave me one of your

  letters to read and was delighted to hear you were this 

  side, though like us he dispatched to the other side at

  
  

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