Eaton Socon
Private H J Potter
Just a few hasty lines. I dare say you will have already received my last letter by the time this reaches you. I am still quite well and fit. Hope you are all quite well and cheerful. We had a heavy fall…
Corporal S Cross
We are no longer in the firing line, and are safe from shot and shell. It does seem to be nice to be able to walk about and know you are safe. We are on an island, and sleeping under bell tents, so it…
Private Rodney Barringer, Royal Garrison Artillery
We have had a very hot time the last few days. We have been shelled very heavily. I have never been in such heavy shell fire before. To make it worse they were nearly all gas shells. They sent us about…
Corporal S Cross, Eaton Socon
We are no longer in the firing line, and are safe from shot and shell. It does seem nice to be able to walk about and know you are safe. We are on an island, and sleeping under bell tents, so it is almost…
Private R Barringer, Royal Garrison Artillery, Eaton Socon
We have had a very hot time the last few days. We have been shelled very heavily. I have never been in such heavy shell-fire before. To make it worse they were nearly all gas shells. They sent us about…
Sergeant John Corby, 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards
I am still dodging bullets and have just left the trenches where I have been employed in bomb throwing, and am well. I can assure you it is hell in them, but we are giving the Germ-Huns what for now and…
Sergeant John Corby, 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards
I am sending you a piece of Hill 70 that we made up in the trenches which I think is very good. If you consider it good enough to go into “The St Neots Advertiser” I should like you to put it in,…
Private C J Barringer, Royal Army Medical Corps
Just a few hasty lines (from Alexandria) to you in answer to your letter and parcel which I was so pleased with and I can assure you so were all the boys in the tent in which I sleep. I was pleased to…
Private S. J. Cross, Machine Gun Section 1st 5th Bedfordshire Regiment
Before the War Private Cross was employed at Messrs Jordan and Addington’s Mills, in a letter says:
We arrived here on the 11th leaving some of our Battalion at —— we stayed the night and in the…
Corporal J. Mardlin, 8th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment
We are getting on very nicely now about here, and you needn’t worry over me being here. I also hope Fred will return home safe. You needn’t worry about us, we are only doing what a lot more are doing…
