Letters to Mrs R. H. Caldwell, from her son Robert Douglas Caldwell and other soldiers, 1917-1919 - Page 65

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Sutton Veny
22 Nov. 1917

Dear Mother,

Thanks very much for the tin with a cake & some sweets in, I received it today & found it in excellent order, this is the seventh parcel I have received altogether, not too bad is it. You just should have seen us opening it, there was Ken & a couple of others round me at the time all waiting expectantly to see what was inside & I can assure you we enjoyed it properly. Our tucker the last few weeks has not been too good at all, we have had very little meat & two days this week we only had fish & pretty rotten sort too & very badly cooked, bread also seems very short as for a good many meals lately we

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