Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 159
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was quite misty yesterday so I got up out of the trench & had a walk, on top the mist was quite thick so there was nothing to worry about, there is quite a nice crop of turnips and barbed wire. You see we were sent up to look around, they have quite a long word for this "looking around" called "reconnaisance" & as we see things from engineers standpoints our information is forwarded indirectly to the "big guns" up who control things, that is why our job is so interesting, we just look around, every fold in the ground has its points & is noted, here we can work in the day there we must work at night & so on.
The infantry here have an awful time & have to live in the trenches for stated periods no matter what happens they must hold on if things are being straffed, we, unless it is extra special get out.
Amy's letter I am grateful to receive it was very kind of her to write & sometime I will drop her a note all to herself.
Fritz is dropping bombs from his planes they make an awful din & seldom hurt anybody, we lose no sleep over them - he's dropped 4 whilst I wrote this paragraph.
Kindly accept my heartfelt birthday greetings. I hope I'll be home again before your next.
With love to all
Yours affectionately
Malcolm