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Date: April 28th 1918
To
Folks
From
George
Letter

V.A.S. France

April 28, 1918

 

Dear Folks,

 

Back again to the old base and the old business. Starting in once more to be a soldier is a job even more difficult that I had expected. I was hoping to run into somebody I knew down here but was dissapointed.

 

No letters of course since leaving Con Camp. I left ‘home’ Wednesday afternoon; the journey was broken that night at a famous town about which Maud Hawkins once wrote a ‘story’ for the ‘Westminister’ unfortunately owing to an out break of smallpox the place was ‘out of bounds’ so I kicked my heels most of the next day waiting for the cattle cars which were to take me the rest of the journey. Travelled all that night at a snail’s pace arriving next morning at a station and camp five miles from here. After having dinner in this camp a small party of us consisting of Imperials entirely except myself were marched to the M.G. base and so I arrived once more at the starting place for all evil and for all good.

 

As a draft went out to day I shall probable me around for a week or more. It is a very decently conducted camp but of course we have ‘parades’ both morning and afternoon. Being alone and in a rather solitary frame of mind I have nothing to relate beyong my own [?] doings. There is a fairly decent library in the Y here from which I managed to dig out some Graham Balfour’s life of R.L.S. –entertaining reading- and I brought with me a couple of Frenck works – so you see I have found something to keep me from contemplating the inscrutable ways of the army which metnal process, so I think I have mentioned before, should not fail to result in insanity for the thinker.

 

Very very much love to you all. I need not tell you how much my thoughts are with you, especially when I am not getting letters.

 

Affectionately,

George

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