This page has already been transcribed. You can find new pages to transcribe here.

Transcription

[Page 111]

Tel-el-Kebir
Egypt
​March 6th 16

Dear Mother

It must be a week or more since I wrote to you last, but I let it slip for a special reason;  have been waiting for my transfer into the fifty sixth.  The reason why I transferred was to be in a new battalion, where I stand a good chance of promotion;  I was not certain of my transfer for it took nearly a week to go through the "Head Gees" hands.  About a week before I put it in, our battalion was split in two, half went into the fifty-sixth, the rest to the famous Fighting Fourth.  It is a change to be with new hands, but I did not like to leave the fourth with all its glory it has the name

 

Current Status: 
Completed