DK86 1 1 3
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| Title | Letter dated 1/1/1915 sheet 2 |
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| Description | Before I forget, you need not believe a word that you read in the Daily Mail; we get it out here & there is no truth in any of their statements about this part. I am afraid I cannot put quite what I mean. All around the trenches where I was, dead Frenchmen were lying in every direction, and the men keep digging them out of the trenches. They are quite all right, some look as if they were asleep. They have been there 2 months, but the wet has preserved them. A patrol found a room in one house close to a lot of Frenchmen, all dead, some sitting in chairs, some lying on the floor & some kneeling down. I suppose they had been asphixiated by a shell. They also found several bundles of Germans tied up in bundles of fours heads to tails. I expect they had been getting them ready to be cremated. They had fires in buckets all along the trenches and needed them badly. The Jack Johnsons make a huge hole – about half as big as the pond at Frid in the garden. One fell in a neighbouring trench, but did no harm. I forgot to tell you Williams is back and looking very well. A Happy New Year to you little Ginny Cracknut. I was quite forgetting about it. I wish you could have been here for your Christmas dinner. You would have enjoyed it. I must try 2 learn a little French again. I have forgotten such a lot of the words but I get on slowly. They are very good while the little Jack is waiting to try and get the word & they never laugh. I wish they would. One of our men found a Ghurka, hiding in a haystack this morning. He was evidently a deserter, but he never brought him in. Now I must stop darling little Gin. Lots & heaps of love from your ever loving little Jack |
| Photographer / artist | Unknown |
| Publisher | Unknown |
| Contributor(s) | |
| Date | 1915 |
| Type | Manuscript |
| Format | Letter |
| Identifier | DK86 1-1-3 |
| Area | Herefordshire |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Archives |
