Item 01: Gordon Thomas Edwards letters, 21 January 1916-7 August 1919 - Page 207
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we are billeted in a French village about 3 miles from the sea shore, in between Etaples and Boulogne. Leave can be obtained to both places, but I have been in both several times previously so have not troubled them this time. The class of French people around here ,that is on the coast are a filthy lot. I daresay the war has made them worse, but at any time I should imagine their standard to be pretty low. Leave can also be obtained to Paris, but at present the cash balance doesn't permit the trip so I shall have to wait until later. I am going away on the 15th to an Army Corps School of instruction, it will be a change for a while and perhaps something may turn up out of it.
I think your reply to Mrs Cust was a very good one Ida. I'm sure it expressed all