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| 15 May 1916 - and the tone of Albert's letters changed.... | ||||||||||||
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| ...The worst of it is they don't give us enough grub to do it on. We spend most of our money on coffee, ginger beer and chocolate. We still get our 3/6 a week as yet, but that does not go very far. I shan't stop in the amy after the war, it's not good enough. | ||||||||||||
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| Our sergeant who has (censored) says the grub is good, but there's not enough of it. We don't get so much as we did at Aldershot. If you don't keep your eyes skinned, you don't get any at all (censored) the Rfmn. go in permanent. The last lot had a hot time of it, too. But they managed to go through it unscathed. According to our N.C.O's, the Germans are an artful lot. We shall he popping away at the Germans pretty shortly, and as long as I don't get popped it will be alright, I guess... |
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