John Haworth Drewry Letters
Letters from John Haworth Drewry to his parents. Learn more.
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PER ARDUA AD ASTRA
In the Field
Oct. 12, 1918
Dearest Mother: –
I seems ages since I have written a letter and I'm sure it must be nearly a month since I have written you. We are on a special job and living in the awful waste of the recent battle-area. We are seldom long in one place and have been working like fiends. But now the weather is dud and I at last find the opportunity of writing. No doubt you know of the great old backing-up the Hun is getting. We have been in it full swing and you see these things can't
BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 / DREWRY FAMILY / Selected Correspondence, 1917–1919.