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Harrogate Herald - 2nd May 1917
W H Breare letter
To Private Rex Botting :
Private D G Wake would like your address. If
you send it to the Herald Office, Harrogate, I will forward.
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Still going strong :
So says Private D G Wake, of the Lewis Gun
Section, in a letter to Mr W H Breare thanking him for the Herald. I
said in my last letter to you, he writes, it has been the source of
many hour's enjoyment for me. We are still going strong somewhere in
France. I have been out of the trenches about a week, but we are
expecting being moved back again any time. However, it is not so bad
in the shell holes just now, seeing that the weather is fairly
decent. By the way, could you get me the address of Private Rex
Botting, as I should like to write to him. Hoping it will be no
trouble to you, and wishing you paper every success.
Harrogate Herald - 9th May 1917
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Acknowledging the Herald, Private D G Wake says :
I look forward to it as much because it lets us know all the news
of our own town and not so much of the war. We see quite enough of
the latter. Well, Sir, things out here are very busy. The Germans
seem about done. I think it is only a matter of a few weeks. Let us
hope I am right. I am still out of the trenches and have been so
about a fortnight. My home this time is a broken-down stable, but my
pals and I have made it quite comfortable; in fact, I am sure all of
us don't mind if we stay another fortnight, but I am afraid that
would not help to win the war. We must all do our share even if it
is only a small one. As I sit her in the stable, the sun is
streaming through what was once the doorway, and the birds are
singing. It makes my mind wonder what Blighty is like just now; also
to think what I should have been doing had I been there. Well, I
suppose I shall have the pleasure of another summer in Harrogate,
all being well. By the way, could you send me a razor - that is, if
it is not too big a favour. Mine is done. You see, I have had it
ever since the war started, and it has been knocked about so much.
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