Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 334
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5. send you to England, he said, "but you can't our fleet wont let you, Poor beggars how they must fool them in Germany. Another said Why don't you give in, you know you are beaten. It must shock them when they get a look at the English papers. Anyway, Nell, from what we have seen of Germany's wonderful soldiers, & so called men, I am satisfied, I could beat six of them, with a bayonet any old time. Why a chap could beat them with his old hat. There are thousands of better boys than I in our army so you can guess what sort of chance Fritz has man to man. His only mainstay is his big artillery, & to give the devil his due, he surely is a past master in that department. In the air he is absolutely out classed,& on the water he is exactly even more so. Mind you, this is going to last longer than most people think, it will never end until we get him fighting on his own soil, & you can see by the map, we have a long, long way to