Captain/Major Harold Ward Correspondence, item 126

• December 10, 2018 19:38:45 Thomas A. Lingner

  not to set to work & build a

  shelter. Headquarters have been

  making themselves palaces a

  little farther away. The big

  guns were just by their shed

  & when they fired they shook the

  shed & knocked off the loose

  tiles & rattled the corrugated 

  iron. They - personal of H'd'qtrs - got

  headaches instead of pleasant

  sleep so they decided to flit.

    The Padre was round this
  

  morning & wanted me to believe

  with him that the war would 

  be over in August. He is

  evidently thinking of his summer

  holidays. I'd like to think that

  the Boche will give in by then

  but it will be a rapid change

  of tune if he does. I expect

  America will claim the honour

  of ending the biggest war

  in history (by fright) if she doesn't

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