This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...think I had got " cold feet " for one thing, and for another I knew that with a rest, and my reserve--which is a deep well, it seems--I would be all right. If you see me in the Casualty List as shell-shocked and missing, Fairy Godmother, don't be alarmed, as really I am neither, and most certainly not the latter. I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...think I had got " cold feet " for one thing, and for another I knew that with a rest, and my reserve--which is a deep well, it seems--I would be all right. If you see me in the Casualty List as shell-shocked and missing, Fairy Godmother, don't be alarmed, as really I am neither, and most certainly not the latter. I will write you again to-morrow. I am feeling better now, Fairy Godmother/ and it has done me good to unburden myself to you. All my love, and don't think me mad, George. October 27. Now, my dear Fairy Godmother, I can really sit down and write to you. Since I last wrote to you I have been on the run all day and part of some of the nights as well. The Major came down the day after I did, gassed. We have moved forward, and the officers were sleeping in a Boche pill-box that was saturated with phosgene'. The dear old Major is not too bad, and is going to be all right soon. Amsley, " B's" Major, is in the same plight. Wilshin and Johnson of "B" have gone down to the Base as stretcher cases. It really is hard luck. Roberts, our Captain, went on up to the guns when the Major came down, and so I am running this end. I am going to write the Colonel all about that, as it may interest him. My rest, of course, simply hasn't happened, but this work has been "far better. It has kept me properly occupied, and I'm in my element, dear--I love organizing. There is a captaincy going pretty soon, I believe, and I'm hoping. The jolly old Major wants to get this and the other battery, when a vacancy will occur, amalgamated, and then reshuffled, provided Roberts gets his majority, so as to keep me with him, which of course is delightful, but might be disloyal to Roberts if he didn't become a Major-man. I am going to talk about all yo...
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