Item 01: Ralph Ingram Moore letters, 10 February 1907-15 March 1918 - Page 441
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[Page 441]
No.1 Command Depot.
Perham Down.
Andover Hants.
20.8.16.
My dear Mother
Two of your letters to hand since I last wrote and one from Eric. The letter was posted at Las Palmas, so he is seeing fresh places already. I am glad for his own sake that he is going home this time via the Cape. He will be a well travelled man before this war is over. It was only a short note, but he said he was quite well.
The Adjutant is still away in hospital, so I am still hard at it. I would sooner have it that way than nothing to do in a quiet place like this. And then, too, it is wonderful experience. There is ten times the amount of work in the running of a Command Depot as in an ordinary battalion. As I explained before the population of a Command Depot is such a shifting one. In spite of all drawbacks the men are exceptionally well looked after. I am enclosing a diet sheet for one week, & then you can see for yourself that the men lack nothing in the food line. Not only is