Letters from Thomas Noonan to home from the front

• November 19, 2017 04:22:20 Paivi Tenhunen

  Side of page note P.S
  

             One night while
  

  having a nap in the trench
  

  I dreamt I was having tea with

  you at home. But suddenly woke
  

  up to find sand splashed all over
  

  me with some shrapnel. Signature  
  

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  Kasr- el- Ainy Hospital
  

  Cairo
  

  May 4th 1915
  

  Dear Mother & Father,
  

                                           Just a short letter
  

  Trusting you both are in good health, also
  

  my brothers and sisters. How is Bill N
  

  say I was asking for him also all the friends
  

  at home. I am in hospital at present

  as I got a bullet wound in the ankle.
  

  I am feeling in the best of form , and expect
  

  to be back in the firing line very soon.
  

  I was wounded on the morning of April 28
  

  the bullet went through at one side of my
  

  ankle and out at the other side and neither
  

  broke a bone or tendon. I reckon I was
  

  
  

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• November 19, 2017 04:14:13 Paivi Tenhunen

  Side of page note P.S
  

             One night while
  

  having a nap in the trench
  

  I dreamt I was having tea with

  you at home. But suddenly woke
  

  up to find sand splashed all over
  

  me with some shrapnel. Signature  
  

  Letter Header

  Kasr- el- ling Hospital
  

  Cairo
  

  May 4th 1915
  

  Dear Mother & Father
  

                                                                                                                     Just a short letter
  

  Trusting you both are in good health, also
  

  my brothers and sisters. How is Bill H
  

  day I was asking for him also all therefore
  

  at home. I am in hospital at present

  as I got a bullet wound in the ankle.
  

  I am feeling in the best of form , and expect
  

  to be back in the firing line very soon.
  

  I was wounded on the morning of April 28
  

  the bullet went through at the side of my
  

  ankle and out the other side and neither
  

  broke a bone or tendon. I reckon I was
  

  
  

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• December 2, 2016 14:52:05 Jake Warren

  Side of page note P.S
  

             One night while
  

  having a nap in the trench
  

  I dreamt I was having tea with you at home. But suddenly woke
  

  up to find sand splashed all over
  

  me with some shrapnel. Signature  
  

  Letter Header

  Kasr- el- ling Hospital
  

  Cairo
  

  May 4th 1915
  

  Dear Mother & Father
  

                                                                                                                     Just a short letter
  

  Trusting you both are in good health, also
  

  my brothers and sisters. How is Bill H
  

  day I was asking for him also all therefore
  

  at home. I am in hospital at present

  as I got a bullet wound in the ankle.
  

  I am feeling in the best of form , and expect
  

  to be back in the firing line very soon.
  

  I was wounded on the morning of April 28
  

  the bullet went through at the side of my
  

  ankle and out the other side and neither
  

  broke a bone or tendon. I reckon I was
  

  
  

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