I should like to write a book…

By the end of the previous day his movement orders had come through: he now knew that he was being sent to join the 9th East Surreys – and he was leaving the very next morning.

Movement Orders

He wrote to his mother during his journey – while lying in a field enjoying the beautiful weather. They had spent a couple of hours on the train that morning, alighting at midday. And, since the next part of the journey wasn’t due to begin until 7:00 that evening, there was nothing much to do but lounge around and enjoy the sunshine. He coiuldn’t tell his mum where he was, nor where he was going, but he did tell her that he had seen much on his way to interest him. ‘I should like to write a book about it one day, if I can’, he wrote.

[Next letters: 2 October]

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