11 - The Germans are getting pretty handy us
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- SpeakerCodford, England, February 18, 1916 – (Letter #11) – “The Germans are getting pretty handy us”
- SpeakerJack and B, you are most welcome letter received yesterday.
- SpeakerGlad to hear you are all in the pink, as this leaves me still in Codford and still at the same old job.
- SpeakerWe have been having it very exciting around here the past couple of weeks, as the Germans have been getting pretty handy us.
- SpeakerThey went over our camp the other night, but we knew they were coming and we had all lights out.
- SpeakerI was right on my machine gun but they did not come low enough to get a shot.
- SpeakerThey dropped 500 bombs on Bath, right in the city.
- SpeakerI do not know what to make of it.
- SpeakerEngland is slow in regards to not having the coast better guarded,
- Speakerbecause they can only come one way and we could knock the hell out of them.
- SpeakerWe could catch them either coming or going, but, Jack, we can’t do it without the guns and zeppelins.
- SpeakerI see Russia is doing a great work. I think you will see a big move within a very short time,
- Speakeras they are sending us away from here in very long drafts [now].
- SpeakerMy mates in my old Batallion are all gone, Lord Derby’s men in their place, the ones that fetched up,
- Speakerso we don’t have anything to do with them.
- SpeakerWe had rotten weather here all the time,
- Speakerrain all the time and mud up to your knees, the kind that won’t come off when you lift your feet.
- SpeakerYou have about a ton on.
- SpeakerI got Mother’s parcel at last.
- SpeakerI did have one great feast on tobacco and cake, [I tell you that].
- SpeakerDid you say Eldon had enlisted? Let me know when you write again.
- SpeakerHad a letter from Eugene and Flo today – very pleased to hear from them
- Speakerbut no letter from Mother yet since November but I have written just the same.
- SpeakerWell, I will have to come to a close for this time.
- SpeakerGrub is a damn sight – worse since we came here.
- SpeakerEvery damn shilling I get my hands on goes for grub, so I try to manage to pull through.
- SpeakerGive my love to all and lots of kisses for Mary and Teddy, not forgetting yourself.
- SpeakerTell Herb Hatch all the damn lies you can think of.
- SpeakerI would like to see him here when the airships are dropping bombs. I bet he would shit his pants, excuse my plain talk and scribbling.
- SpeakerGoodbye, with love and best wishes from Lee.