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Joncret
Belgium
18.4.18
My dear Colonel,
Your welcome letter of Dec 24th received by me a few days ago & was pleased to see you had reached "the land of sun" safely. I can quite imagine your disappointment at not being with us when the end came. Since then we have had a very easy time & have been billeted in villages near Chaleroi. The show is nearly finished now & my commands consist of Cramp & two 2/Lts, 50 men (1918 enlistment) & 9 horses. The whole Div. expects to be clear of here by the middle of May. Gleeson went to HQ London a few days ago & Mac Keown on draft. I leave here with the next draft & and expect to embark from England for home about the middle of May. We were very disappointed in not sending a force to garrison the Rhine, as we considered we had earned a place there. I have just arrived back from a 16 days tour to there & northern Belgium. As the account of it is so long I had it typed & am enclosing a copy for you. A few days ago I wrote to the Comforts Depot thanking them for