Letters from Thomas Noonan to home from the front

• November 19, 2017 04:12:34 Paivi Tenhunen

  and which I received yesterday. I was glad
  

  to receive it and hear that you are all well
  

  at home. About the Xmas and New Year well
  

  I spent those at sea about three thousand miles
  

  from Sydney. In fact I hardly thought it
  

  was Xmas time at all. I was surprised to
  

  hear about the fellows from McBirneys enlisting,
  

  but I suppose they got the same notion as myself
  

  and wouldn't be satisfied without going away.
  

         I don't think it much for a young fellow to do
  

  especially as a person has only to die once and it
  

  does not make much difference where that occurs.
  

        Dear Mother I don't think I have much more
  

  to write about at present, except, that we went to
  

  Mass at the Church in Heliopolis today. The
  

  service was conducted by several priests and a
  

  Bishop. The Bishop wore a beard and long
  

  black hair down his back, also the Mass was
  

  not read in Latin but in some other language.
  

    I forgot to inquire what order they belonged to
  

  or what was the language.
  

        Hoping to hear from you soon I will now
  

  conclude with best love to all
  

                                                                 Good-bye
  

                                                                            from your loving Son
  

  (Private T Noonan)
  

  
  

  
  

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• November 19, 2017 04:02:06 Paivi Tenhunen

  and which I received yesterday. I was glad
  

  to receive it and hear that you are all well
  

  at home. About the Xmas and New Year well
  

  I spent those at sea about three thousand miles
  

  from Sydney. In fact I hardly thought it
  

  was Xmas time at all. I was surprised to
  

  hear about the fellows from McBirneys enlisting,
  

  but I suppose they got the same notion as myself
  

  and wouldn't be satisfied without going away.
  

         I don't think it much for a young fellow to do
  

  especially as a person has only to die once and it
  

  does not make much difference where that occurs.
  

        Dear mother I don't think I have much more
  

  to write about at present, except, that we went to
  

  Mass at the Church in Heliopolis today. The
  

  service was conducted by several priests and a
  

  Bishop. The Bishop wore a beard and long
  

  black hair down his back, also the Mass was
  

  not read in Latin but in some other language.
  

    I forgot to inquire what order they belonged to
  

  or what was the language.
  

        Hoping to hear from you soon I will now
  

  conclude with best love to all
  

                                                                 Good-bye
  

                                                                            from your loving Son
  

  (Private T Noonan)
  

  
  

  
  

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• December 2, 2016 14:35:32 Jake Warren

  and which I received yesterday. I was glad
  

  to receive it and hear that you are all well
  

  at home. About the Xmas and New Year well
  

  I spent those at sea about three thousand miles
  

  from Sydney. In fact I hardly thought it
  

  was Xmas time at all. I was surprised to
  

  hear about the fellows from  M Berneys enlisting,
  

  but I suppose they got the same notion as myself
  

  and wouldn't be satisfied without going away.
  

         I don't think it much for a young fellow lords
  

  especially as a person has only to die once and it
  

  does not make much difference where that occurs.
  

        Dear mother I don't think I have much more
  

  to write about at present, except, that we went for
  

  Mass at the Church in Heliopolis today. The
  

  service was conducted by several priests and a
  

  Bishop. The Bishops wore a beard and long
  

  black hair down his back, also the Mass was
  

  not read in Latin but in some other language.
  

    I forgot to inquire what order they belonged to
  

  or what was the language.
  

        Hoping to hear from you soon I will now
  

  conclude with best love to all
  

                                                                 Good-bye
  

                                                                            from your loving Son
  

  (Private T Noonan)
  

  
  

  
  

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• December 2, 2016 14:34:24 Jake Warren

  and which I received yesterday. I was glad
  

  to receive it and hear that you are all well
  

  at home. About the Xmas and New Year well
  

  I spent those at sea about three thousand miles
  

  from Sydney. In fact I hardly thought it
  

  was Xmas time at all. I was surprised to
  

  hear about the fellows from  M Berneys enlisting,
  

  but I suppose they got the same notion as myself
  

  and wouldn't be satisfied without going away.
  

         I don't think it much for a young fellow lords
  

  especially as a person has only to die once and it
  

  does not make much difference where that occurs.
  

        Dear mother I don't think I have much more
  

  to write about at present, except, that we went for
  

  Mass at the Church in Heliopolis today. The
  

  service was conducted by several priests and a
  

  Bishop. The Bishops wore a beard and long
  

  black hair down his back, also the Mass was
  

  not read in Latin but in some other language.
  

    I forgot to inquire what order they belonged to
  

  or what was the language.
  

        Hoping to hear from you soon I will now
  

  conclude with best love to all
  

                                                                 Good-bye
  

                                                                            from your loving Son
  

  (Private J Noonan)
  

  
  

  
  

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