Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 243
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jobs on special occasions, so watch despatches. This letter is full of We's, but then, "We are It" & a body, or rather unit, to be respected & looked up to. It's quite a common sight to see a duel between a couple of planes. They fire machine guns at one another. Gee, you should hear our guns whipping the shells in. They whistle over, & the boom shakes everything around it. One of the team had a lucky escape the other day. All of us were sitting down sorting bombs, when an aeroplane passed over us. The Germans opened fire on him the plane with shrapnel & pieces were flying everywhere. A nose-cap of a shell, came down, whallop just beside him Had it hit him, it would have been finish. He is keeping the cap as a souvenir. You said, that you were afraid that your letter would only be short. The shortness does not really matter, as long as they are frequent. Of course, I prefer them Long & Frequent. I see the Rev. Mc has got away at last. Its a soft thing for him, as they live well, & all here look well. If he can come up to out Mac, he'll do alright. That letter affair, of the photo Edith Pulsford had, is easily explained. Mr Pulsford is Les Roger's uncle, hence the photos. I got the two photos you enclosed, & I reckon they're great.