{"id":210,"date":"2013-05-09T04:45:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T04:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2013-06-26T20:28:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:28:39","slug":"neil-mother-23-aug-1917","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=210","title":{"rendered":"Neil – Mother: 23 Aug 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sling
\nAug 23rd 1917
\nDear Mother,
\nThings have kept on improving until now life is almost pleasant. \u00a0The tucker is excellent except for the absence of butter which matters far less than you would expect when you have plenty of fresh margarine . \u00a0We got a real soaking today followed by a 10 mile route march in wet tunics with packs up so the life cant be so bad when one feels cheerful after that. \u00a0This letter card contains a few views of Salisbury the nearest big town to here about 18 miles away. \u00a0We may be seeing Vic there the weekend after next. \u00a0We get our draft leave (4 days) in about a fortnight, after we have been put through the gas chamber & the bull ring & a few other pleasantnesses. \u00a0Vic will probably be having his convalescent leave at that time and we are arranging to paint London red together if possible. \u00a0It is unlikely that we shall be in France for three weeks yet. \u00a0I received that lens from Reid today. \u00a0It was a little bit thicker than the last one so you can imagine the trouble it was getting the darn thing into the frame . \u00a0I lost one of the little screws and cracked the glass through the hole after I had got the other screw in. \u00a0I hope the remark I made made Reid turn in his bed [It was my dinner time – about midnight in NZ ] \u00a0 \u00a0 I have got them fixed now in a sort of a way.<\/p>\n

Yours
\nNeil<\/p>\n