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Our lunch consisted of tough chicken legs & stale [illegible] in lunch baskets & you really ought to have seen the old boy gnaw his chicken leg - held it in both hands & gnawed it, & then when he had sucked it clean he tossed the bone out of the window - didn't seem to have any use for such trash or knife fork & plate. | Our lunch consisted of tough chicken legs & stale [illegible] in lunch baskets & you really ought to have seen the old boy gnaw his chicken leg - held it in both hands & gnawed it, & then when he had sucked it clean he tossed the bone out of the window - didn't seem to have any use for such trash or knife fork & plate. | ||
− | It made me chuckle to think what an English officer would have said if he'd seen him & just fancy he was a Colonel. Couldn't speak Kings English, & hadn't the foggiest notion of Military matters, & that old fool will be put in charge of 1000 lives in France later on. Oh it makes me savage to think of it. There are such a lot of similarly ignorant uneducated [swines] walking about as Brigadiers, Colonel & Majors, & none of them have the slightest inclination to | + | It made me chuckle to think what an English officer would have said if he'd seen him & just fancy he was a Colonel. Couldn't speak Kings English, & hadn't the foggiest notion of Military matters, & that old fool will be put in charge of 1000 lives in France later on. Oh it makes me savage to think of it. There are such a lot of similarly ignorant uneducated [swines] walking about as Brigadiers, Colonel & Majors, & none of them have the slightest inclination to inform their [illegible] or fit themselves for the position of trust reposed in them. Never do they think of the [thousands] |
BC Archives, MS-0089, Box 1, File 4 | BC Archives, MS-0089, Box 1, File 4 | ||
GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver | GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver | ||
Correspondence inward, 1916 | Correspondence inward, 1916 |