Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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Dear Swannell,
I read a letter of yours to Lamport with much pleasure and amusement the day before yesterday and though I don’t know where you will be when you get this or under what strange - and to us quite unrealizable - conditions you will receive it, it is written with the idea of conveying to you, under whatever conditions you find yourself, the hearty good wishes of myself and your old friends in “B” Company. 88th Rept. All of whom - or most of whom - are now in No. 16.PlatoonNo. 4. Corp. 48th Battln.
It is quite out of the question for us to even try in the illegible way to realize some of the things you may have gone through before this reaches you or the horrors you may even now be experiencing at the front, for we are of course still in what now seems to you the very elementary stages of our preparation - and therefore beyond illegible with you in the hardships and dangers and envying you in the excitements which you experience. I don’t propose to discuss the situation which of course is uppermost in your mind but to try and convey to you in my letter a small breath of that quiet world which still exists behind your wonderful and magnificent firing line and tell you a little news of ourselves -
Of the following list of”B” Company boys who were in it when you left it and who are in 16 Platoon and who are all chums together waiting to get a chance to prove the metal of the 48th in unknown fields and who listened to your letter the other night and asked me to write and express their appreciation of your good