{"id":314,"date":"2013-05-19T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T03:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=314"},"modified":"2014-03-20T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T20:20:31","slug":"vic-dad-30-oct-1917","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=314","title":{"rendered":"Vic \u2013 Dad: 30 Oct 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"

Codford
\n30\/10\/17
\nDear Dad
\nI received your letter dated Aug 12th last week, also one from Gorrie dated Aug 19th. \u00a0Everything is going on much the same here. \u00a0Norman and Neil are still at Aldershot. \u00a0I had a letter from Norman yesterday, and they seem to like their job there. \u00a0I am now brought down to B2 so that I will be going back to Sling in a few weeks. \u00a0I will get another weeks leave from here before going to Sling. \u00a0The weather here has turned much colder and on Sunday the frost was so heavy that it looked like a fall of snow and all the water was covered with ice. \u00a0The water in the taps was also frozen. \u00a0We have plenty of coal in the huts at nights, but we are not allowed to burn it in the daytime. \u00a0I notice many of the 23rds in the last casualty lists including some of my own platoon. \u00a0There are some of the main body here, and they are bitterley disappointed at not getting home for a rest. after being led to believe they were, and their opinion of their King and country would not look well on paper. \u00a0The papers have just announced that Itlgy (miswritten – Italy)<\/span>\u00a0has had a big set back (the series of battles at Caporetto where the Italian army lost 300,000 men in October 1917)<\/span>, so that the chance of peace before Xmas looks smaller than ever, but there is always the chance that there is a lot that is never published, \u00a0otherwise the war will last for a good many years yet.<\/p>\n

Vic<\/p>\n