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<p>a4701790.html</p><p>4./&nbsp; Have been keeping a look out for young &quot;Codger&quot; Fergusson whose Batt<sup>n</sup>. took our place in the outposts recently, but so far I have not run across him - @ least not since the night we came out, when I spoke to the lad in the communication trench.&nbsp; While coming out of the same place the afternoon B4 last from an all-day fatigue I passed Arthur Sawyer, &amp; &quot;Poodle&quot; Harris (of Albury &amp; late 61<sup>st</sup>.) both of the 3<sup>rd</sup>.&nbsp; They were going into the outposts &amp; were fully loaded up with goods &amp; chattels, so I only had time to greet them.&nbsp; Hope all is still well.</p><p>Don&#39;t think that there&#39;s anything else of local importance that I can speak of @ the moment, so will switch off on to Father&#39;s great budgets still B4 me &amp; see what there is to comment on.</p><p>Your Dec<sup>r</sup>. 15<sup>th</sup> &quot;young library&quot; contains lots of grand news &amp; is very interesting.&nbsp; Merci beaucoup!!&nbsp;&nbsp; Always pleased to learn that mail from this side is reaching you &quot;OK&quot;, if in spasms, &amp; that you find something to interest you.&nbsp; Good!!&nbsp; Very pleased that so many P/Cs survived the journey &amp; that amongst the 63 odd were those written from the Base &amp; R-----.&nbsp; I thank you for your advice of receipt of &quot;Miss Bristol&#39;s&quot; letter &amp; for the lack of caustic comment - headiness on your part.&nbsp; I did not like to learn that the friend who has been so kind to me over in &#39;Angleterre&#39; came in for much comment, etc., on a/c. of the letter.&nbsp; It was I who gave her permission to write, as she requested it of me.&nbsp; Anyhow I&#39;m pleased that you do not intend to ignore the communication as such a thing might make one poor unfortunate English soul unhappy.&nbsp; I can well imagine what was thought when the letter came - that I&#39;d &quot;done-me-dash&quot;, &quot;lost-me-head&quot;, or &quot;gone mad&quot;, but you needn&#39;t fear that matrimony will be the <s>result</s> end of the meeting, &amp; the resultant correspondence - not much.&nbsp; Life in the Army, in my idea, is too serious a thing for one to gamble with <s>it</s> &amp; marriage, especially on a few minute&#39;s acquaintance, would be madness.&nbsp; No, I&#39;ll be quite content to let the years roll while this war is on &amp; wait till the return - if it&#39;s Our Heavenly Father&#39;s wish.</p><p>I intend to go down Bristol way during part of my leave when it comes - any day now - &amp; am assured of a pleasant stay, despite Food-rations, &amp; the like.&nbsp; Believe that I&#39;ll get 10 days, as leave comes every 6-months now.&nbsp; It&#39;s to be sincerely hoped tho. that there&#39;ll soon be no need for any @ all, as the War ought to end &amp; we ought to have the holiday &quot;Down Under&quot;.&nbsp; God grant that no more anniversaries are to be passed ere the &quot;Joy Bells&quot; ring . . .&nbsp; Yes I quite agree with you that it is very very hard for a stranger to write to strange folk in a strange land, but I hope you&#39;ll be</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>PTO to 5 [in bottom left hand margin]</p>

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