Arthur Douglas Crease Letters, Diaries and Scrapbooks
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− | By the way the sleeping bag that | + | England has welcomed us most enthusiastically so far as the people are concerned but if it had not been for 69th I don't know what we should have done last night - arriving at a strange unfurnished camp in the dark. |
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− | We can easily reach Folkestone & Hythe from here but I don't know if it is worth while. We hear that we are only to have three days leave. In that case I doubt it I shall see Carleton. Some of the | + | By the way the sleeping bag that Hugo gave me was just the dead thing & saved my hide, so to speak, last night. |
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+ | We are all given C.B. for 3 days until medical inspection & I am orderly officer tomorrow Saturday. | ||
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+ | We can easily reach Folkestone & Hythe from here but I don't know if it is worth while. We hear that we are only to have three days leave. In that case I doubt it I shall see Carleton. Some of the Battns are being hurried to the front very quickly after arriving as there is considerable | ||
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+ | BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1916. |
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England has welcomed us most enthusiastically so far as the people are concerned but if it had not been for 69th I don't know what we should have done last night - arriving at a strange unfurnished camp in the dark.
By the way the sleeping bag that Hugo gave me was just the dead thing & saved my hide, so to speak, last night.
We are all given C.B. for 3 days until medical inspection & I am orderly officer tomorrow Saturday.
We can easily reach Folkestone & Hythe from here but I don't know if it is worth while. We hear that we are only to have three days leave. In that case I doubt it I shall see Carleton. Some of the Battns are being hurried to the front very quickly after arriving as there is considerable
BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1916.