“How are you to-day? I am glad some letters have turned up. Nothing is known in the Battalion about D.B. coming out. Clarence Gardner has got a second in command’s job to the battalion Colonel Beasley is commanding. Nothing has come up yet in the garden. I am afraid I am rather impatient. I like to go and look at the things growing but when there is nothing there it seems rather futile. An onion which I dug up last night was showing signs of life, which is encouraging. My house is practically finished as regards the four walls & roof. The next thing to do is to get the interior fixed up. It is going to be nice and cool during the hot weather.
“One of my sergeants picked up a detonator the other day and did not know what it was! He thought it would make a nice pencil case so started picking about inside it with a pin. Of course the thing went off, after the habit of detonators, and blew his hand off – You can never get to the bottom of the ignorance of some people.”
During this time the 2nd Gloucesters were involved in a number of raids in the Struma Valley. These were mainly minor skirmishes of no consequence.
{next post 12th May}
George's War Letters 