Captain/Major Harold Ward Correspondence, item 57

• December 7, 2018 20:20:50 Thomas A. Lingner

  28/3/17

  My Own Darling Wife,

    Many thanks for your letter
  

  of the 21st. I believe my last letter was

  one I sent on the 23rd. On the morning of

  the 26th we left our rest camp & marched 

  forward to the ruins of a village - about

  six miles. I went early on Sally another 

  six miles farther forward to look at our

  new positions so I was fairly tired at

  night. Had a good night's rest in my 

  clothes & then on again next day. We

  arrived at our village-that-used-to-be about

  noon expecting to stay for some days. We

  made ourselves very comfortable but early

  next morning the order to move came; so 

  in an hour we were tracking again.

  Unfortunately the rain was falling quickly

  & it was very cold. My hands & feet

  were awfully cold, but I didn't get off & 

  walk as my saddle would have got

  too wet & I knew I should probably have

  plenty to do later in the day. We had a 

  meal in the rain by the roadside just

  outside another ruin & then I pushed

  off to look at the ground where my

  men were to be for some time.

  Imagine very open country with big

  windswept ridges & no cover & you

  can guess how nice it appeared in

  the rain. I was going hard for about three

  hours & then posted the men in position

  an hour after that I was again ordered

  to move & this time we had more 

  luck for we had only to go a mile

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