Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 91
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Germany wants all she has for her own use. But we hear that great preparations are being made for our reception by the Turks. It'll be fine fun marching through Constantinople. We expect the fighting to be short sharp & decisive. Then it is quite on the cards (though this my own conjecture) that we will march up through Servia, Connect with the residue of the heroic Servian army & strike for Vienna. Then Austria is sure to cry Enough & the way to Berlin will be open from the South. Of course this is a rosy picture but we think it is quite probable to eventuate.
I should much rather learn my geography this way, visit Egypt, Asia Minor, Turkey Servia, Austria Germany, Belgium France & England in turn. It certainly is a shade more interesting than sitting down in the Den (Eh Percy?) & reading up these places in the Encyclopedia Britannica. It would certainly be something to talk about for at least a fortnight after I got back.
Maybe I should have given some news this week, but there really is none. We are still impatiently cooling our heels & waiting till we get the word to go.
So heres lots of love & lots of luck.
Yours ever Ol.
P.S. I forgot to tell you that Ailsa is just 5 years.