Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 103
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[Page 103]
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One thing I dread is any further worry for you who are everything in the world to me. All I meant was that I can't help feeling that strange longing to be in the real show that everyone must sometimes feel. It is It is'nt that one wants to run risks or anything of that sort, for nine men out of ten hate the whole show, and none more heartily than I do, but just that a chap feels he ought to be in it. It is only a sort of mood that strikes one now and again and even the worst punk must sometimes feel it. I think it is largely a matter of environment. In a job like this you can have a very very happy crowd as we have had for the last few months, but the population is always shifting and after a time a batch of new men come along, and you find that all the old chaps have gradually moved on. Then you get letters from them all from France where they are probably in the same squadron and working all together. Then you find that you have this bunch of new chaps and the same old job to put them through and just as you get to know them well off they go to. Of course you feel sort of very much left behind and out of it all. It is only just a sort of passing mood and one has'nt much time for moods these days when there is so much to be done.
Have just heard from Aunty. Bryan is all right but will not be sent back to England. It will be six months before poor old Maurie will be able to walk well, poor old boy. Thank God he is all right. They are off to the country for a fortnight.
Good bye for the present and tons & tons of love to you all. God ever bless you my darling Mother & Father
Your ever loving
Geoffrey