Letter from Ida Daunt to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, Part 2

get a driver. On Fridays

we go down to a town

4 miles from here for a

bath. Last Friday I took

a lorry & six men to

wash.

This place is on a rise &

in my office is first my

desk (made it myself) then

on either side of the room.

which is has been made

by military carpenters

from the Engineers are

printing tables, next is a

dynamo for electrically

lighting the Colonels Offices 

& our huts. Then comes a

small petrol motor & our

printing machine & last
the type cases. I have one

assistant printer, but am 

to have another, also an

orderly to mess about

with the petrol motor dynamo

ac.

Just past the offices is the 
colonels bedroom, and
opposite Captn White's hut
then the adjutant's (Lieut Darby)
and next to his is my hut -
opposite are the batmen &
cooks huts & cookhouse
Now you have an idea of
how our residences are 
laid out. By the way
my address is now simply
Driver H P Evans, 5^th Corps
ammunition Parks, British
Expeditionary Force, France
Dont add any more or less
no matter what wiseacres
tell you. This is Sunday
afternoon & I am writing
in my office. I have a fire
in my hut & hop down to
get a warm. The Colonel's
driver is swearing because
he has to get up at 4 am

tomorrow to drive to
Boulogne, 60 miles away

My assistant is also waiting
& the orderly is swearing at
the engine because the pump
wont work. On the whole
this is the best show I have
had since I joined. We
have only staff officers in
this little hamlet so you
can imagine the environment
is quite aristocratic. The
lorries of the different sub-packs
are various distances
from here. The Germans
sometimes vary the monotony
of things by dropping bombs
on this peace. One of the 17^th
Officers has just been in
(Lieut Fordyce) & asked me if
my roof could stand up
against one. - I tell him
that I propose lubricating
the roof so that bombs
will glide off.
Just alongside my office

is a small pond into
which Capt White shies
all German unexploded
grenades bombs &c. If
a Jack Johnson hit that 
pond something would 
happen.
Well now I think thats
all the news so I'll
conclude with love
& the best of all
good wishes to Ted.
I have to write Mavis
Yours affectionately
P Evans
Remember me to
Mr Yanning too
& anyone else
interested in me

To
Daunt
Sub Editor
Sydney morning Herald
Pitt & Hunter Sts
City
[*Mr Reeve*]

Photo - see original document
H.P Evans

CARTE POSTALE
PR 82/8

Lieut. Col. R Law
AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS.