{"id":99,"date":"2013-05-03T20:22:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T20:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2013-06-26T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:21:20","slug":"neil-mother-25-mar-1917","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warletters.falkor.gen.nz\/?page_id=99","title":{"rendered":"Neil – Mother: 25 Mar 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday 8 pm
\nDear Mother
\nI am just dropping a line while I am waiting for the billiard table to be vacant in case Trot, who has gone back to Awapuni early, omits to write. \u00a0We came through here on Friday. \u00a0The whole matter of the transfer is too lengthy for a letter so I’ll leave it till Easter. \u00a0Awapuni is a lovely place. \u00a0No stones, no dust, no lack of leave, no hard work, all of which exist at Trentham. \u00a0The disapline here is a little stricter than at Trentham, but not annoyingly so, except that one is not permitted to wear riding trousers but is forced to wear those that are issued and to put them on as if they were bloomers. \u00a0Punishment for quite small offences are quite severe. \u00a0Trot and I are for the present attached to the Home Service section \u00a0but that will be remedied \u00a0when our papers come thro from Trentham and we \u00a0shall then probably be drafted into the 27ths. \u00a0I am one of two Sergeant Majors mess orderlies this week which means very little work and very good tucker for the next seven days. \u00a0Quite a number of chaps here I already know and one quickly gets to know the others.<\/p>\n

Yours
\n49123, Pte N H Smith
\nNZMC
\nAwapuni<\/p>\n

P.S. \u00a0By all means send cake if you have any!<\/p>\n