Arthur Douglas Crease Letters, Diaries and Scrapbooks
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I thought I was going to spend Christmas w/ Carleton but that dream has been shattered by Charlie Pooley who has a prior right but said he was not going to exercise it - So now if everything runs smoothly Twelfth night should see me crossing the Channel. It will be pleasant to get the taste of mud out of one's mouth. One does get to taste it all the time at intervals you know but it really means that one's stomach has gone wrong. When we leave the trenches this time we shall go as far back as we ever go. | I thought I was going to spend Christmas w/ Carleton but that dream has been shattered by Charlie Pooley who has a prior right but said he was not going to exercise it - So now if everything runs smoothly Twelfth night should see me crossing the Channel. It will be pleasant to get the taste of mud out of one's mouth. One does get to taste it all the time at intervals you know but it really means that one's stomach has gone wrong. When we leave the trenches this time we shall go as far back as we ever go. | ||
| − | That is not far but the wearing of steel helmets is dispensed with & gas respirators may be worn slung instead of like a bib of a most uncomfortable pattern. | + | That is not far but the wearing of steel helmets is dispensed with & gas respirators may be worn slung instead of like a bib of a most uncomfortable pattern. When the wind is |
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[In the?] Field
7.12.16
My dear brother
I thought I was going to spend Christmas w/ Carleton but that dream has been shattered by Charlie Pooley who has a prior right but said he was not going to exercise it - So now if everything runs smoothly Twelfth night should see me crossing the Channel. It will be pleasant to get the taste of mud out of one's mouth. One does get to taste it all the time at intervals you know but it really means that one's stomach has gone wrong. When we leave the trenches this time we shall go as far back as we ever go.
That is not far but the wearing of steel helmets is dispensed with & gas respirators may be worn slung instead of like a bib of a most uncomfortable pattern. When the wind is