Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 546
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so many who have never been to France. Of course they are all just as wonderfully brave and good about it as they are about everything else, but it is just heartbreaking. Poor old Gilbert too has been very badly treated indeed by the staff people he is with. They have apparently been fooling him about his promotion – it is a shame to think that he was wounded over two years ago and has'nt yet been made a captain after all the splendid work he has done. I feel very sorry for him all alone out there for I know how he must feel lonely and homesick. Work is a great distraction always and I dare say that is why most Australians are fond of hard work, but all the same there is always that longing for home and all the happy days before the war.
The war news lately is simply splendid – one can hardly realise that only a few months ago everything looked blacker than ever before in the war. Foch is a wonderful General to have turned defeat into victory in so short a time.