Sullivan letter diary, 27 October 1915-9 October 1917 / Eugene Sullivan - Page 26
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Field Service Department
Liverpool Camp.
Monday 22nd November 1915.
No.1.
Dear Father/.
As you suggested in your letter I wrote to the Prothonotary with reference to my enlistment and when I receive an acknowledgement I will forward it together with a copy of my letter, which I cannot lay my hands on at present, to be kept with my papers which are in the safe.
You will be pleased to hear that Major Lawes has arranged for my transfer to the A.A.M.C. I went to Liverpool to-day to have the transfer arranged and will move there for good to-morrow. Tell Mrs. Ord I am very grateful to her for the letter she sent as otherwise I certainly would never have succeeded in securing a transfer.
Stirling got transferred to the Artillery, after vainly trying to get into the Engineers. Considering my endeavours to get into the A.A.M.C. would prove fruitless I also applied to get into the Artillery shortly after Stirling. That was before I received Mrs. Ord's letter. They called for three hundred Artillery men for gunners - and over a thousand from my camp applied for the positions. The Colonel who came over for them, could afford,