{"id":200,"date":"2013-05-08T05:18:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T05:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2013-06-26T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T08:00:25","slug":"vic-mother-13-aug-1917","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=200","title":{"rendered":"Vic – Mother: 13 Aug 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letter No 3
\nsince 1\/8\/17<\/p>\n

NZ Convalescent Hospital
\nHornchurch 13\/8\/17
\nDear Mother
\nI have got all letters up to No 8, except 4 & 7. \u00a0I suppose by the time you get this, Gorrie will know what kind of luck he has. \u00a0I expect Norman and Neil will be here soon, unless they stayed in Sydney for a month as you suggested. \u00a0I came here from Walton last Tuesday. \u00a0It is not quite so flash here, as it is at Walton but it is very comfortable all the same. \u00a0We have nothing to do for the first week or two and we can go to any of the towns round here within four miles, and to London on Sat and Sun. \u00a0I went on Sat to London to see the opera, and had another look at St Pauls, and yesterday, we had a look at what used to be called Pettycoat Lane. \u00a0This is a sort of open market. \u00a0There are several streets all lined with large stalls, selling all sorts of articles. \u00a0They are nearly all Russian jews and there is plenty entertainment, but not many bargains. \u00a0In the afternoon we went to Hyde Park , where there are many cranks, all lecturing at once, and a famous band playing. \u00a0The seats near the band are free to all men in hospital uniform. \u00a0There is also a long lake called the Serpentine where you can hire boats for 1\/- an hour. \u00a0We came back as far as Barking on the bus and was just in time to see the finish of an air raid on Southend, where about 40 were killed and 80 injured.<\/p>\n

Tell Gorrie that George Stephenson, Bob Mess and a man named Eldridge, or some name like that, are here, all wounded, but all getting on all right. \u00a0G Stephenson told me that Gordon Brain is at Codford and that he is all right as far as he knows. \u00a0Codford is a rest camp in Wiltshire, the last place we go to before Sling.<\/p>\n

Vic<\/p>\n