Ten Years Ago Today, item 27

• December 14, 2016 22:56:03 Sue Bryant

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  From Abbeville I was sent to Calais in a

  Hospital train. It took 13 hours. Look it up on

  the map and you will realize a little how we

  travelled.

                  I was put on board a Hospital ship that

  evening and came across the Channel for the last

  time the next day, arriving at Dover & from

  there to London & the Royal Free Hospital

  on Grays Inn Road.

                  Beryl came with Mummy the next day to

  see me. What a funny little bundle of woolly

  clothes you were – and that was the end of the War for me.

                  That’s all there is darlings. It may be all

  very interesting to you later on. I have told you

  the tale as it happened. Whether I cut a good

  figure in it or not I don’t know. The War to

  you is History, and God grant that never in your

  lifetime may you be called upon to undergo

  the terrors of war time. Mummy can tell you

  tales of the war. The women folk had the worst

  time, and when the time comes for you to have

  men-folk of your own may you be blessed with

  peace all your life so that you may not know

  the anxiety, the stress, the awful uncertainty of

  these days of 1914 – 1918.

                  God bless you my darlings

                                  Your loving

                                                  Daddy

   

  Sept 18 1928

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