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Biesmeree
Belgium
20/2,19.
Dear Colonel
Your letter of 24th Dec to hand & I can assure you it filled me with the greatest of pleasure to receive a letter from you. I am pleased to hear that your & yours were well when writing & I hope the receipt of this will find you all in the very best of health. So glad you found time to spare to run out to my home for I am sure Mrs G. would be greatly bucked up & delighted to hear of me from you who had left me & could give absolutely first hand information as to my health etc. & I thank you heartily for being so kind. I am more than pleased to hear from you that my family were all so well. I quite follow regarding the fiancée. Getting pretty old eh? seeing one of the family is running a fiancée - & I understand he means business. No the boy had not caught up to me prior to you leaving & did not arrive until about the 13th December so is really enjoying a cook's tour seeing the world & being paid for it but still it is not the lad's fault he came as soon as he could. I quite agree with you in your opinion regarding Mrs G not being in good health all the time but I cannot say for certain for some of them at home would let me know the real state of things but I am very much relieved & pleased to hear through you that she was well & cheery the afternoon you spent there. I hope that gave you a good welcome one similar to that which I would give you, for the many favours you done for me & your kindly & ever forbearing manner towards me on all occasions. I quite understand you feeling Colonel & am not surprised that "A" & "Ax" are still flashing through your mind & that the sound of s "Donk's" chuckle & the