Item 01: Alan Keats Gordon letters to Nellie Clark, 18 August 1914-30 August 1916 - Page 335
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6. go yet. In my opinion Russia will be the deciding factor in this game, she is doing wonderful work. Our progress is slower, as he has prepared so well, & is so deeply entrenched. His dug-outs are thirty- & forty feet deep, & they are fitted up with all comforts, just like an up to date hotel, baths, enamel cooking utensils, curtains, tables, chairs, mirrors, beds, stoves electric lights, bells, & plenty of ale etc. You can see by this that he expected to stay. Some of the dug-outs have as many as a dozen & more rooms. When I tell you that our shells found them out, deep & all as they dug in, you can imagine how we felt when they threw 100,000 in one day on one portion of our trench, & still I live. A mail just arrived Nell, & I got one from everyone except you. I felt like burning the lot without opening them. I got Dad's p-c & am pleased with his promise re the tennis court, but am afraid he will have whips of time to finish it. Was very pleased