Item 04: Letters sent by Robert Christian Wilson to his family, 1916 - Page 190
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B Squadron
1st Regt ALH
11th September 1916
P.S. Dora's sox were labled fr From one streak to another "and may your "shadder" never grow lees" as I know who that was.
My dear Mother,
I only wrote to Father yesterday but there is an Australian mail just closing so I thought I might as well write a note to you too.
Your parcel has not arrived yet but I expect it in a day or two as the parcel mail is not in yet although I got a pair of socks from Dora today but I think they were posted some time before yours.
Sergeant Cay has come to the Regt and is in B Squadron as a trooper of course; he was Doug's chum you know and is a jolly nice chap and he and I know a lot of people in common.
Fancy Geoff enlisting; Aunt Beatrice will feel it pretty much but I know Geoffry will be pleased as he has wanted to come for a long time but I hope the war will be over before ever he gets to the front.
I got some more papers from home last night, two Guardians, an S.S. Journal and Dalgety's so my mail is coming very regularly now.
What great times you seem to be having with the car; I am glad you have got it and can get about and see people now: that is one good thing the war has done; it has made people pull together and not have these "sets" and little petty quarrels that people thought were the