Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 139
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[Page 139]
24.10.17
France
My dear Mother Father & Sister
Yesterday l received a parcel, really a most excellent one, containing some good tobacco, really I smiled because my last letter written before I received the parcel was one long epistle for some. The holdall is excellent the writing pad also. It referred to some other parcel containing a drinking mug, this hasn't come yet, the latter is a good stunt, for I had often felt inclined to take a drinking mug from a dead fritz, a fritz's kit usually has some handy little thing in it. Tobacco is the great stunt, mine goodness we do envy a chap who has a plug of light Havelock. Our village is a quiet little spot a creek runs thro it & works a mill, made a tour of inspection thro it today - very interesting.
We have had the pleasure to read of our battles in the papers - when you have read our stuff look over the German official & balance them together, so far as hardships & mud are concerned, believe all of it every time, of the fighting hand to hand etc. there is extremely little of it, the Germans immediately the barrage passes over come out of the pill boxes offering absolutely no resistance, for example 18 Huns came out of a pill box & surrendered to one of our officers - who hadn't even a revolver with him. I enclose some German money given to me by the N.Z. mentioned in a previous letter.