Captain/Major Harold Ward Correspondence, item 42

• December 7, 2018 15:46:38 Thomas A. Lingner

  5:30 pm have just had tea. A pint to wash

  down some cake & chocolate. The drink was

  most welcome. During the afternoon I have

  contrived to bathe in bits and feel the

  better for it. My men are doing splendidly.

  They have a pretty hard time but keep most

  cheery & hardly ever complain. They all say their

  food is better than in England and one finds

  the most cheerful remarks in their letters

  when one censors them. The fellows work

  like Trojans at times and the more they 

  have to do the more willingly they

  tackle it. They are very keen on the

  Regiment and like to prove that they

  are better than any other battalion. We had

  a compliment paid us the other day when

  one of the Divisional Staff came round. He

  said to the co. "Well it's good to come

  here, you fellows have had a rough

  time but really yours is the only cheerful 

  battalion I have visited since we left

  England." But they are a good set

  everything seems to make them laugh

  & as they have come out to finish the

  war (as they say) they don't mind what

  orders come along. The exposure has

  sent some of them sick but in most 

  cases they are the men I expected to go

  sick. The older men who joined

  last March. I expect most of them will

  come back in a week or so but one

  or two will have to be found soft

• December 7, 2018 15:44:21 Thomas A. Lingner

  5:30 pm have just had tea. A pint to wash

  down some cake & chocolate. The drink was

  most welcome. During the afternoon I have

  contrived to bathe in bits and feel the

  better for it. My men are doing splendidly.

  They have a pretty hard time but keep most

  cheery & hardly ever complain. They all say their

  food is better than in England and one finds

  the most cheerful remarks in their letters

  when one censors them. The fellows work

  like Trojans at times and the more they 

  have to do the more willingly they

  tackle it. They are very keen on the

  Regiment and like to prove that they

  are better than any other battalion. We had

  a compliment paid us the other day when

  one of the Divisional Staff came round. He

  said so the co'

  
  

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