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John Haworth Drewry Letters

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c/o "OVERFRONT LONDON."

THE ROYAL CLUB FOR OFFICERS BEYOND THE SEAS, AT THE ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB, PALL MALL, LONDON, S.W.1.

REGENT 5000

November 13, 1918

Dearest Mother: -

The war is over! Or at least the deadly part of it is. If London is symbolic of the Empire never has a nation so rejoiced. The crowds immediately went mad when the news of the signing of the armistice was published - and they stayed mad till the early hours of this morning, two days later. Never have I seen such sights and I am sure I never will again. They absolutely beggar description.

Whom do you think I was with on "Victory Day"? Robin Watt and his mother. Robin has now been wounded four times, the last a couple of months ago while we was A. D. C. to