Captain/Major Harold Ward Correspondence, item 181

• December 12, 2018 15:14:24 Thomas A. Lingner

  29/5/17

  My Own Darling Marion,

    A change of scene
  

  I am writing this letter sitting on

  leaning against a sapling in a

  we left our tents last night & 

  up here in the summer rain.

  to find a tent for myself & shelter

  my men but my expectations were

  realised & I found a hole in the ground

  covered with corrugated iron for

  We had to set to & make shelters

  the men. Fortunately the rain stopped

  the work progressed favourably 

  by 2 am everyone was more or less

  under cover. We are still a 

  from the Boche & up to the

  he has not troubled us with

  nasty shells. This wood

  There are very few large trees

  bushes from eight to ten feet

  
  

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