his dear old [ name ], The very worst has happened - No, not what you think, but something much worse - his name was deleted from the list of Officers sent over to [ ? ] last Wednesday. On the Tuesday morning definitive information came through [ ? ] officers Worried for [ name ] were ? the in Shorncliffe Station at 9.30 am Wednesday, of course we were all as [ ? ] as ... be. about 2.30 Tuesday afternoon the list came in, [ ? ] name was not there. I Thought it was a clerical error, [ ? ] the [ name ] Office, + about 1/2 hours I learned that it was not a clerical error - By [ ? ] I then got busy - I again went to the [ ? ] Officer got them to telephone to the reinforcement officer got to confirm - I ran got a horse + followed over to Shorncliffe to [ ? ] headquarters, [ ?] found and that way [ ?] had been sent through with all the others to the war office, that it came back with my name + [ ?] others can't ... and he is the highest [ ?] have to [ ? ] anything, I could do no more. Whether he was lying, of course I can't tell.