Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 114
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torpedo destroyers circled round & round on the look out & an aeroplane circled aloft, but I dont think they got the submarine.
(Bit of a bombardment going on at present but not much harm being done).
Tell Anne I ran across her story "The dead yesterday" in an old Australasian in a dug out here. I was very pleased with it.
Im enclosing a list of casualties of our brigade as a result of 11 days fighting. Some were killed or wounded in the trenches, others by snipers or shrapnel behind the firing line. Wiggins of the Field Ambulance was sitting in his dugout & 2 of his mates went out & called to him. He leaned out & said "Not yet, the shrapnel hasn't stopped" Then a shrapnel shell passed between the other two & struck him on the head & killed him.
Farmer Whyte may use any of this for a Bluegum story. But he must not connect Bluegum with the list of casualties.
Lots of love to all
Ol