Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 286
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[Page 286]
22.2.18
Flanders
My dear Mother Father & Sister
Just a few lines, Auntie Miss Shore sent me a pork pie for my birthday, it was good & came at just the right time for I am living in a deep dugout up the lines on issue rations.
For special work forward I practically volunteered & to be near it is the order so here I am at present enjoying a good time, its a change to get away from the company & the work is awfully interesting, of course its mighty risky what with snipers etc. you are kept moving often we roam into No Mans Land on work of some kind, its about as uninteresting a strip of country (no mans land) as you could possibly imagine but you can work up a good old sweat at times.
May Hamilton wrote me a nice letter a few days ago it was addressed to my military address & consequently took quite 10 days extra to get to me. I think it would be as well to stick to sending letters thro Stroud.
Am enclosing a number of letters for your perusal, there is now little doing just now except that the winter is extremely mild & not in the least trying.
Sent the little cigarette box to my Dad. I hope it comes along allright.
With love to all
Malcolm​
Just going up the line for the night.
The big leaf is from St Geneviève Church, the ivy leaves are from Mussè Cluny, Paris.