Item 04: G. O. Hawkins letters to his family, 2 January 1915-November 1917 - Page 103

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[Page 103]

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"Did you lose any officers" we ask
"Any!"
"These chaps want to know if we lost any officers Sam"
"We lost the blooming lot nearly" There was Mr Chadwick, he got killed the first on going over"
"Yes and that other bloke, the best of the bunch, what was his name?"
"Manners"
"Yes him, wounded that bad he died next day".
"Yes and the Major, the pluckiest bloke in the battalion, to give him his due, but a [snorter?] at drill
"He gave me twenty eight days C.B. once"
"Served yer right too"
"Any how he had guts in the firing line"
"Yes a bloke dont mind following chaps like him"

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