Headquarters. C.T.D. Bramshott.

Dear Miss Russell:-

I have been patiently waiting to hear from you ever since I arrive, but so far, I have not had a line. I suppose, as usual, you are kept pretty busy keeping the rest of the staff in order. Tell Mr. Hosie, that he is included in this list also.

Well, I have left the 103rd. Battalion, and have now got a good job at Divisional Headquarters. I get plenty of work, lots to eat (the most important one of them all) and good hours. I have been here about two weeks and am just getting to the work. The 103rd. Battn. sent a large draft to the front a few weeks ago but the rest are moving to Seaford in a few days, and nobody knows were they will drift to.

We hear several rumours about the "Bantams" coming over here, but we think, (if they ever reach England) that they never will get to the Front. They have plenty of men now and those that they take over have to go through a very strict examination before they will think of taking them across. No one under the age of 19 is allowed to go.

I suppose you heard all about the Measles from Eustace. I think I have been pretty lucky, as I have not had them yet (touch wood). George Miles, who used to work in the Buildings, has gone to London to work in one of the big War Offices. Billy Baker is in the next office to me, so you see we have quite a bunch of Parliament Guys in Headquarters.

The weather in this Country is something awful, it does nothing else but RAIN!!!! RAIN!!! RAIN!!! if it was anything like the rain we get in Good Old Victoria, it would not be half so bad. It just comes down in buckets, and one is sopping wet after one drop has hit you. Don't think I am stretching the point, because it is true.

BC Archives, MS-1901 Box 1 File 20 / RUSSELL, Alma M., 1873 - 1964. Victoria; librarian. / Letters from Gregory T. Yorke, [1916] - 1918.