Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 312
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in an envelope, to HdQts, London, & they despatched it from there. Unfortunately, Mum's guess about my being in London, & having seen Aunt Janet, by the time you received the cable, was a long way out. I haven't got there yet, & unless I get a "blighty" it does not seem very likely, as the leave system is working very slowly now, the busy season has commenced, & I'm afraid we will all be working over time. As you say I will be an experienced young man by the time I return, as for passing on my views of France, well I think if anyone should ask me anything about France, & the war, I'll just about knock their heads off. Of course you know, some heads are too pretty to be knocked off, but I'll find some other means of punishing them, I'll sit down & talk them to sleep. How do you think they would like that? As for not wanting to come back to Civsy well, I reckon you wont see my heels for dust as soon as Fritz cries quits. I must admit Nell, that I have been carrying on very badly with a girl here in France