Captain/Major Harold Ward Correspondence, item 160

• December 11, 2018 18:01:56 Thomas A. Lingner

  22/5/17

  7:30 AM

  My Own Darling Marion,

                               I am afraid you will think I

  am rather neglectful in answering your

  letters for several times lately I have a written

  scrappy notes and promised to answer your

  letter lately. I do enjoy getting your

  letters - they are the best part of life out here

  + I get quite down-hearted when the post

  arrives without a letter. We get settled

  for such short periods and there are

  many things that require doing at any

  there so that when I sit down to spend a

  long time with you, I am as often as

  not called upon to do something else.

  Last night when the major called he kept

  me busy for an hour, then we had to

  walk over to the next village + we were

  there a further two hours. I was very late

  for dinner + then had to get out a work

  program for to-day only to find an hour

  or so later that there was a route march for

  to-day + later still came an order to march  

• December 10, 2018 17:01:40 Jessica McCane

                                                    22/5/17

  My own Darling                       7.30 AM

                               I am afraid you will think I

  am rather neglectful in answering your

  letters for several times lately I have a rather

  scrappy notes and promise to answer your

  letter lately. I do enjoy getting your

  letters- they are the best part of life out here

  + I get quite down ... when the post

  arrives without a letter. We get settled

  for such short periods and there are

  many things that require doing at any

  there so that when I sit down to ... a

  long time with you I am as after as

  not called upon to do something else.

   Last night when the mayor called he kept

  me busy for an hour, then we had to

  walk over to the next village + we were

  there a further two hours. I was very late

  for dinner + then had to get ... work

  program for ... only to find an hour

  or so later that there was a route march for

  today + later ... came an order to march  

  
  

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