Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 182
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Bob Kerr showed me a telegram from his son Ross, saying that he had been shot in the arm, but not seriously. We are all sorry for the father & mother of Humphrey Scott who was killed the other day, & was a Brigadier General at 26. He is a cousin of Ken Street. Mrs. Scott is a sister of Judge Street's.
Mother has just read to me what she has written to you in reply to what you said about longing to be back at the Front again. We just bow our heads & trust to God to keep you safe, dear boy, but you mustn't forget that the one who trains dozens of others, & trains them as splendidly as you are doing, is just as useful, & in fact just as indispensable, as the best of the flying men at the Front. Besides it is not as if you hadn't given proof of the fact that your work at the Front was at least as good as anybody else's, & that you are always willing to go wherever you are sent. At the same time we understand your feeling restless at times when others are going.
Sometimes I wonder what you will care to take to, when, please God, you come back to us again, & whether you would care for some other profession than law. I wonder whether you will care for the more or less confined office life, or whether you would – now that dear Rogie is gone, care for medicine rather than law. Engineering is apparently your natural bent, but there is no decent scope for an engineer here except in the Government service, & that would be a poor life, not to be your own master. The only