Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 132
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10th Field Engrs
A.I.F.
France
19.10.17
My dear Mother Father & Sister
We are to have a spell & rest away back in the country, my initiation has been thorough & complete & I'm not keen on very much more, war is a game for savages not for civilised men, lately my life has been fairly quiet just dodging shelled areas, one job has been making roads & tracks. We usually commence about 3 am & work till about 10 am getting back to billets about noon, sometimes we are in chg. of 300 to 400 men & I am truly grateful to add that of the hundreds I have had only 2 have been slightly wounded, you soon get to know Fritzies points, he likes certain bits more than others & it is not difficult to dodge them, sometimes I get home without any trouble sometimes he chases you home & sometimes no matter where you go you walk into it, just luck.
Lesley Correy lost his right shoulder joint, Scott got a bullet thro the thigh, Harold Whitworth is in Blighty he walked into one of "Miss Krupps" Bouquets & got shell shock a few days after he got here. Gill & a couple of other officers I knew in Sydney turned up here today, they are billeted close by. Met Mr Williams of Geelong a few days ago he looks pretty good, there are a lot of felows here whom I know.
Whenever I see N.Z.'s I always take a real good look at them. So far I have not seen any whom I know.
The encolsures come from a daughter of Lady Holder of Adelaide. I am happy to send them on, the poem is very