{"id":85,"date":"2013-05-02T20:29:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T20:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2013-06-26T05:01:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T05:01:46","slug":"85-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=85","title":{"rendered":"Vic – Mother: 30 Jan 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 30 Tuesday 1917
\nDear Mother
\nI received your letter tonight. We left Featherston about daylight last Sat having breakfast about 3 am. \u00a0Only the 23rds came. The 24ths follow on Friday. \u00a0I heard that they will decide after the shooting tests who will remain in the 23rds so that I may yet be put back. We came to canvas town near Trentham, but there are no huts & no beds but a wooden floor & six men to each tent. \u00a0The days work starts at 4:15. \u00a0They will leave here next \u00a0Friday, destination not known, but not far from Featherston because we have to have the inoculation completed there. Final leave may come any time now, but we can never tell untill the day before. \u00a0I may stay here if I fail at shooting and join the 24ths again. \u00a0We never know anything untill a day before it happens, therefore it would be best not to send any parcel at present. \u00a0I hope we soon go into huts again as canvas is not so good. \u00a0They cant be kept as clean & meals are all served on the grass outside. \u00a0We have the use of the Trentham Institutes in the evening also the canteen. \u00a0All training is very easy nothing else but shooting. \u00a0I suppose you got the parcell of old clothes all right if not I can get them after as I have the ticket. \u00a0They were not worth much anyway. \u00a0Dont alter the address on any letters yet. \u00a0I will get them with same address as before. \u00a0Tell Gorrie that I never saw Frank Abercrombie & I only heard that he was in the cook house. I am not sure. We can get leave any night now. I was in Wellington on Sunday had a royal time with several from our coy.
\nVic<\/p>\n