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and expectations as the result of combined offensives are realized one cannot say when that will be.

The Somme was deeply interesting but horrible. Death was as common as blades of grass in a pasture. one became quite callous and only personal discomfort from smells and flies[?] affected one other than such isolated instances as dear Ken Taylor and one's favorite

BC Archives, MS-0089 Box 1 File 4 / GLASSFORD, Deborah Florence (Leighton). Vancouver / Correspondence inward, 1916.