George Douglas Brush, item 91

• May 30, 2018 21:06:19 Thomas A. Lingner

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  Once on hearing from you so you will get by & by a half

  day I should think of reading old letters forwarded to you

    Mrs. Martin begged for your whereabouts at Bristol to write

  her people to visit you, so if you get strangers inquiring for 

  you they will be her people possibly. Of course there were

  many inquirers this morning after chapel & I had a series 

  of questions to answer and accept a sort of reflected glory

  radiating from Elsie's little tin god ah what! no I mean our

  steel proof & tried veteran who in the future will modestly

  ruck up his sleeve to hide his gold stripes. Wes waxed

  eloquently over the news, and of course also wrote to France

  we must tonight give him new address and you must

  exchange letters, the old boy appears badly strained, the Drs

  have examined him carefully again and say he must still

  have a long rest and with care in the end get right again

  the elder one of the two says he talked to him like a father

  telling him he was a big fellow and had had a hard strain

  and done his bit, so perhaps after another good spell he

  will get a discharge from active service.

    By now I expect Stan has left the signalling school

  & is back with his Battalion and beginning to think

  his turn on their particular bit of the front is again on.

    Did you get the news that we believe Jack is safe in

  Africa? A lady nurse from Wesley's hospital at Birmingham

  travelled in the same boat & cabled "safe through" so

  if correct we hope soon to get written news from him

  
  

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