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Date: December 7th 1917
To
Miss M. Beastall
From
Fred
Letter

Katesgrove War Hospital
Reading
7/12/17

My Dearest

I was so delighted to receive your dear letter yesterday. It is getting rather dull and monotonous here, but after all it is a great consolation to know I am safe on English soil. Oh but Dearest I do want to see so much, it will soon be three months since I saw you last.

I don't know whether it seems longer to you, but it does to me. Time seems to drag awful when I am away & I suppose when I come on leave the days will fly like lightning.

Sometimes I almost wish I was wounded bad enough to get a discharge, although really I ought not to say that, it is a terrible thing to be disabled like some of the poor fellow in the hospital.

I see there was another raid on London last night, luckily they did not come our way. We had another convoy in to-day, about 40 came to this hospital. They all seem to come from the Cambrai front, there are no Canadians in this lot. I wonder where they are now, they must have moved from the Ypres district by this time. Perhaps they are on rest, I think they are about due for one anyway.

Dearest I'm afraid I cannot write a decent letter this time, hope you will forgive me, I will write again very soon Dearest. Oh I am longing to see you.

Bye-bye my Dearest for the present
Lots & lots & lots of love & xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
from Yours only & forever
Fred