Item 04: G. O. Hawkins letters to his family, 2 January 1915-November 1917 - Page 211
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This hospital is pleasantly situated
It is mostly of tents pitched on moss – mingled grass, with pine woods and quaint farm houses near by. Away to the South East streatches the peaceful; tame scenery of France. Cultivated fields and planted trees and bread-loaf stacks of corn, through the woods on the North, only 5 minutes walk distant, is the ever grand sea. But the beach there is a sad place to me. It is for every dreary and grey, wind swept and desolate, not all like our golden beaches of Australia. There is a town away down to the west which can be seen from or part of the beach, soldiers can obtain passes to visit there, but so far I have not bothered. On Sundays many French people with their children come to our woods and lay – that is the children do – the women who seem charming bring their sewing and try to talk to the soldiers
The children are mostly what you would