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were here you would approve & in any event I know you would do it for my sake - I am still at H.Q. gradually feeling my feet in the duties of an Adjutant - When I go back to my Co many duties which were barely intelligible before will be plain - Matters of discipline too will be more easily & firmly attended to.

Discipline in a Bn which is always in the trenches is a most difficult thing.

One has to try and reconcile the exigencies of the service with the difficulties & hardships of the trench.

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 1 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1916.