Item 01: James Wilkie letters, ca. 1914-1918 - Page 42
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[Page 42]
Our boys still doing well.
a/d
H.Q.
5th F.A. Brigade
A.I.F.
France.
Field
30 August 1916
Dear Mrs. John,
Am afraid I've been some time writing you, up till just lately I've felt anyhow & simply couldn't rake up any energy at all & if I had to do something well I just used to do it & then flop on my back gracefully & gratefully directly it was finished & proceed to do absolutely nothing. I did feel rotten & the weather was rotten & flies were rotten & everything. However that's all over, I've been shifted back to my old beloved Brigade, not in the old Battery but in the Head Quarters this time. And I'm Brigade clerk & promoted to Corporal & Acting Sergeant & a very important bloke so I'm doing well in my slow old way. I didn't do any engineering either, the people here asked for me & although the D.A.C. folk didn't seem inclined to let me go well they just had to. Thank Gawd.
The weather is still particularly vile & the conditions of living aren't too good still, I'm not growling at all. We live in dugouts.