Captain/Major Harold Ward Correspondence, item 170

• December 12, 2018 02:06:16 Thomas A. Lingner

  My Own Dear Wife, 

    Yesterday we marched from
  

  8 am to 4 pm with a useful

  rest at midday. I believe it was

  the hottest day we have had only 

  to-day matches it. It was almost too

  hot to ride so you can imagine

  what the men thought of it when

  they were marching in full kit.

  However we all got here safely

  & then had to pitch tents. We could

  almost imagine we were doing 

  the march to Tralee again. We do

  not know how long we are staying 

  here but I think we shall have

  to move nearer the Boche in a 

  day or two. I was very pleased to

  get your loving letter last night

  & to see that you were both well

  & still enjoying life. The CO has

  been much fitter lately than he was

  at first. He has gone away on a

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