Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 332
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3. from Mr Mc Anderson yesterday, saying that he was now in London. I could not get any replies to my letters, which I wrote him, so I asked Dad to fix up that little matter of mine, with Mrs Mc. Should I get to London at any time, I will look him up. All leave is stopped now, but of course a chap never knows when he might get a Blighty. Several of our boys in the Bombers are there now. Andy & Dick are also there, with good wounds, according to all I can hear. Dick got his in the leg, early in our first charge, & I think Andy got his a couple of days later. Arthur you know is in hospital with a slight shrapnel wound, & is alright, not bad enough to send him to Blighty. Poor old Fred & Mick are both missing, but mum's the word until you hear it from Mr Smith. They both reached the village Pozierers alright, but their chums say that they think they were buried during the heavy shelling. Nell, it was awful &