Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 385
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[Page 385]
29.6.18
My dear Mother Father & Sister,
We are out of the line - only a mile or so back though but still it is nice to be more or less out of ordinary artillery range & to be able to sleep & not to expect a rude awakening by the all too frequent - in my last home - gas alarm.
I am not with my company but am allotted for a few days to our English Army Troops Co, it is a bit of a change to be with English officers; although their general colour doesn't suit our ideas still on the whole they are not a bad outfit. My home is a hole in the ground with a tarpaulin cover, its jolly nice & comfortable, really you would be pleasantly surprised could you peep in as a matter of fact you would feel a desire to have one too. The weather is all we could wish, beautiful sunny days & cool nights, as usual we are secured from view by a wood it is beautifully green, it is like a jolly pleasant picnic.
Yesterday when I was coming along I noticed on the other side of the river a ruin & later walked over to it, a French officer was good enough to show me to it & we had a good long conversation, he