{"id":863,"date":"2013-06-22T23:51:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T23:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=863"},"modified":"2013-06-27T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T05:07:15","slug":"norman-mum-21-jun-1918","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=863","title":{"rendered":"Norman \u2013 Mum: 21 Jun 1918"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ward 16
\nNo 1 New Zealand General Hospital
\nBrockenhurst, Hants
\nJune 21st 1918
\nDear Mum,
\nI am still at the hospital but I am up and able to go down to the village so the chances of a relapse are getting more and more remote. If all goes well Neil and I will be going on leave today week. We will have a fortnights leave and will then return to Eweshott for graduated training. There is little chance of either of us being anywhere the firing line before September at the earliest. I got five letters from NZ the day before yesterday. Many thanks for the birthday<\/a> card. It was one day late, but still that is as near the date as could be expected.<\/p>\n

I spent a comfortable and lazy birthday – plenty to eat and nothing to do but read and make myself comfortable in an easy chair. Not bad that for a soldier on active service. The letters were dated from 16\/4\/18 to 1\/5\/18 as I had received all letters before that and these latest account for every Sunday between those two dates it seems as if I have been lucky enough to have received all letters sent so far.<\/p>\n

I don’t know whether you remember Mr Walker from whom I had physical culture lessons about four years ago. I saw him yesterday. He has a job in the clothing store of the hospital. I am sending a few postcards of Brockenhurst village. I am going to try and get postcards of every place I go to after this. No more news.<\/p>\n

Norman<\/p>\n