“Your letter of the 14th has come. Ion told me he was sending home a rifle. I am glad it has arrived. Quite a fine trophy, isn’t it? Once more I am a member of C Coy and will partake of the things you send out……….Poor Peter, I hope he won’t be bad. He is rather liable to have colds and things. We have got a funny little billet. A very small room in which it is just possible to lay three valises. The kitchen is quite impossible owing to an old man of disgusting habits. They have got a milk churn worked by a dog who runs round and round inside a big wheel outside the house. Just like the donkey wheel at Carisbrooke Castle. This morning, while performing my ablutions, I placed all my gear on the churn not knowing it’s evil ways, and suddenly the dog outside started to run round and the whole lot was deposited on a very dirty floor. Very annoying, wasn’t it?…..The boots you sent me are lasting very well indeed & are awfully comfortable. I have had the first A & N S pair resoled and so I have two thoroughly good ones now.”
Elsewhere – Allied naval attack on the Dardanelles forts repulsed. British battle ships “Irresistible” and “Ocean” sunk.
{next post 20th March}
George's War Letters 