Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 31
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[Page 31]
12-3-17
Just a note to say the air cushion & the Havelock tobacco have just arrived & I'm very very grateful. They both fill a long felt want. The pillow is most swanky & in our colours too. I shall be able to flaunt it.
Judy Morrice & Duncan Macfarlane came today, they are Lieutenants in the R.F.A. [Royal Field Artillery] but I don't think are altogether enraptured with it. Our fellows & Tommies don't mingle somehow, they don't understand one another. Their minds are totally different. We have far more in common with the Scotchies somehow.
Got quite homesick today, it was a nice spring day, warm & bright & a heavenly south wind & in the distance a band would persist in playing "Rag Time Violin", "That Mysterious Rag", "Rendezvous" & "In the Shadows". I was up in the wood above & came upon a Australian Infantry man & we talked of the dear old land. He was a rough diamond but a good sort