Dear Father,
Only a few lines to let you know I am quite well now. Enclosed you will find an express order for $25.00 and will send more the last of the month. You see Dr. Martell and J.A. Russell and find out who I can send this money to in future and what has to be done to use it as I said. Before I came here quite a while I gave W. Card my note but he could not use it without a good name, so thought he had destroyed it. But he has sent me his bill with the note credited (enclosed). Now I do not know whether this note is in the bank or not.
The Battery is going to search for a lost child this afternoon and as time is short, I will close.
Clarence
P.S. The Sergt.-Major told me it would take about five weeks for Ada to get her government allowance from the time I came here. I am telling her.
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What a nice way to remember your grandfather by sharing these letters.
ReplyDeleteJoan, thanks for your kind comment. I never tire of reading the letters and try to imagine what he was feeling when he wrote each one. Thankfully, thus far in my life, I haven't had to experience anything close to the hardships he faced - thanks in part to his sacrifices and those of his comrades. We MUST remember our veterans :)
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