Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 122
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[Page 122]
France
18 November
Dear Mrs. Jack,
Fancy its one year today since we left Sydney in the old Persic, it doesn't seem that in some ways, time goes very quickly & yet in some ways the life there & indeed all that has happened since seems very far away. I wish this month & next & January would go quickly as just now things are particularly trying, it is that cold that I don't know really how I am going to keep alive much less work. One has no idea of it in our parts & then there we have warm rooms & fires & hot food & a good bed &c., &c. And here well thank heaven my dug out is a pretty warm one & I have a clerical job. I have to get out a bit & it nearly kills me.
I'm getting chilblains on my feet & on my ears & I can hardly write & taken all round