Captain/Major Harold Ward Correspondence, item 61

• December 6, 2018 20:28:34 Thomas A. Lingner

  31/3/17

  Somewhere

  My Own Darling Wife,

    I scribbled a note last night
  

  & have just read the one I before it. To

  continue. We moved from our wood & stables

  to a ruined village & found that we were 

  to spend the night in the ruins of a large

  stable - racing stables they looked like.

  They were so bust up that there was

  no shelter from either wind or rain.

  However we quickly got up a quantity

  of small shelters & were hoping to settle

  for the night when orders came for us

  to go out on a working party. We 

  moved off at 7 pm & returned at 6 am. The

  orderlies had hot porrage ready for us

  & after that we turned in for the day. It 

  had rained most of the night & I am

  afraid very few of us really slept.

  I had about a couple of hours all

  told but got another about 4 pm. At 

  7 pm we moved off for the same 

  work again. Sand, rain, snow & 

  mud made things really pleasant

  & I don't think I was in a very good

  temper when I got back at 6 am.

  I was GC works & a lot of the men

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