Letters home, item 1

• January 17, 2018 19:33:57 Thomas A. Lingner

  9th Bt Scottish Rifles

  B. E. F. 

  16th April

  My dearest Mother,

    Please thank Nora for her interesting

  type-written letter. As you may have guessed from 

  reading the papers, I have been pretty busy lately

  & had little time or inclination for writing letters.

  We are out now & after a rest & a wash am

  feeling very fit & happy & content. I was very

  lucky & had a comparatively easy time, but it has

  been very exciting & a great experience. I came

  out quite unhurt & have quite recovered from the 

  stress & strain. C. Slater too, I hear, is all right.

  I slept one night in a German dugout & it

  was quite fun going over the vast quantities of

  stuff they had left & tasting black bread etc.

  I could have got any amount of souvenirs I 

  wanted of any kind whatsoever, but one does not

  feel in the mood to collect them. I am enclosing a

  little pamphlet prayer which is interesting & pathetic.

  Tell Nora that my heart is light once again because

  the night after the attack I received a large box of 

  shortbread & a charming letter from M.A. from which I

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