Cocks letter diary, 1916-1919 / Verner Cocks - Page 438
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[Page 438]
AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY.
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20/10/18
Dear Mother,
This will do for me for duration & the 4 months afterwards. You would never guess I am sitting up in a lovely bed between snow white sheets in a bosker hotel in Dublin, also clothed in clean pyjamas & just had a bath. Well I am & so is Jack & we are both writing to our mothers by the aid of the electric light which Jack has propped over our heads. What a change! I can hardly believe myself. Anyhow here we are & I will tell you briefly how we got here.
The other night over in France we were all sitting round the fire after tea when a messanger came down from the orderly room & wanted to know if Jack & I would go on leave "tomorrow". Of course we said no & proceeded "toot suite" to get ready. Someone lent me a bosker pair of leggings, someone else boots, someone else a new tunic