Letters from Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott to his family, June - December 1915 - Part 9

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First World War, 1914–18
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tmn cto & this applict of 2 wee laddi nece tes er though I lost als carried it all fightinby es a coupl o da n its hhas disappear ten B0 8a
thiny Gallywli Kemanla 26/8/1 S I frund a faw ot Syyph Stang amorgt iy belos which I afpoety was aggaina keying tsen end th rae ladde ranet busfget shay lan put then in your envelve. I it als I have put thosrignal message we gt pon General Kodword just as it was thake donn by the telephment hall the fighting till continued I know you will prevr it caufully I cplld letter what y you will a Synyn on the 12th unt also ap said date th N ue letting ne you had got a lefter of cardif me. There were also a paw f hollaces enclosed & a pair of wik reached me in a part pared by i sive ward but I didn losh at the pormort, it little while back a lighte aak which had among ot other logs of nail for the 7th Battn I think the handkeres o the faroof wook you & fity sut before must thane goe dow an her& amy how they are not here mas 2fr drik. A lyit I am will of 1yoan onewts whon a medical atudent has juest left to emplete her course received
OR 3291 (30 a by hindle fom his mother just as he na gave me two purpaies. You m leaveng t that tholet was felty than when you last wrote Thes muss have been in the letter that yor drowner I heat that there is a by maili now so perhaps it will tur of afterdan, I am were for for Henry One would have though that he my would have litter have the naro the Loure fo hislife. But you never know therhop fice brothin needed it most. will darly we ale having on the little fell from the Trenche we go back again tomorrow - Our last spell sd very guit on mo had his head lake off wih a shell & another lost her car by the same means & a coufle of others got slight wonds but there was no fighting. we gave Aldnl a pretty had trme, we had a tit of a joke with him. I was loging through a tellscope & dircorgeed on of their Calpines mr yover hdder awayin a bette hollow by could just oe them then an a rort of a rail will you alty onit. I got a way to fire a conple of shole at them buthe moved ladly - they played not the order of their going int went - hovever they will have thak a new me
Sam long Worthead has not yet arrived perhap it w droied too Nehemerd lell her I thank her just the far gack o Baltalin has not arrived here yet. Tel Mrs Mc Lrac Gifff just arsived her this morning & woks as fesh as paint I am Naturall delythe to see grim. He is met a cheerfullyss shay that it is a pleasure t have ben on hand tell her I will try to take letter care of hem this tine as her too taluable t me, I have now three of th old mer N. brae, Lagh & Fwift io thing an a little more howllike I am afaid there is very little hopefa pay Harley is still alive Indeed I hear his body had ben foud during an advance Iined bay make certain th whither the ath care or not but in any care all who sent met ber appeal tfar hem cut of I killed. They pashed o for sosfa or th very just day & have not her rew a heard of snte laps Lukton was with him & his body I found ne time ago know w
t of comrn only a sheletor renained bis to edentity was estallished, by the Icent dist & papers Alf thday fith yertudayd all last night againon Hhillf was going in the nelghtouhood of ccha Babd what it wnilt uat I save no hlard out today peen peaceful ngho along the whole pont- M cannot heds a migl sfle shat oonly very occarinlly tdull foom of a lanko but our lift stretches mle away to the worthwards now & Cubla Bay Yes arowded with war ships & merchast shipping you an a dear old have laty to bry togie all that chack alont rengltt whiche it its a watter ffact my thir is kept cropes every veek a regular 152. I look like on dreaped correct especially whe I came out the Trenches. It is a very loveng to catry the wate ther wi do without wask a shave while there but as som as we an out we have a lovely now & the wod beartiful sea wate there ave was Wis so clear that you can stand of tyou neak in the wale got court your toe on the firm sidy bottom of the Sea Ime Abdret has a rotter hapet of shelt the beach, just at the lest time of day for a m but we have all ant of may of Kater Hir. We has lot of peers now & teymepiled wth lop of goage
dom the centre lean ad of he shill from one nd you dusl wind or the other iverss oit is oly very parch I up when he gets a new thefore Hmunt o tuthe pe sy t nan as me or a new gie a sowetting o adm ar thlip tus bunder it guns thatward t annoy in from oer that way Wwas gland to all in the papers the condiful perprise in diclori t the Recrigting lan ag it. I habl great It cheared us allt hopes of getting a good not of mer out of it I will be spluded bpit a wrte o ft s gapnte regiment together as gie anything Wo are egi then prromised me anytng but everyme ske hghl H no n if te of the defence B woke Valme at wotely a of the Mavery of the Relgment Mr Iree the a Turke of the aiy whor he recopmtion hones sthill lie is pont of the haned al s had ton wos t ty hey wy toty enl tatinty at ond Nerpremnt athere redet aly or apetind ne on then at as lon as posill Sre for Bol or h could not holdout sam ome tmplo mare Mana c0 hadnt got uent I could when when goeack I gight we of they could not not spare, tyel Baymept Ayle unil they endead. ald it. He will be glad there that protably to Tull & he Symons & twother
(lxponily) me of whon we killed t the other badly wounded have be recommended for th V.C. Vnta regards myself then are io mony who desirre recognition that I would beglad tgve place to them & it wont worr or Me 2p if that knowd that I know it wnt fam bouth b wth well diling own kid wher is the war coming for end. I hee me Italeans an econet help un o that ehaps Bulgareg will soon decle Guct har or Alder. That will be the end of t poordd of I gues. We have alde got aprett healthy respecr for t chap fighteng abilit & the has fen mighty near getting it licked but has never quute ncceeded & it must breate his heard to find i gaining ogaining ver very donly but aloas going forward never be ion in the teith of his most furion attacks. If thhy altack on us one of the Tripks eitherscause too at orcuder D S Lg arrd to ch offee cun an in at orce alete from his hands & struet him on th head mes it whileth fellow Bho stagger stuck Boyme r I forget if that 43 ever 202170013
D 3227 ( has a very lod Sm say honver it into the trenches whit here + has gone off to ingland on th plea of illnesf I re I by it way that be i repoed i the ha aper a wounded evryne her is uondery hos laughing over warraged to square to Doctor ver it. Dom may Bal prosts were bla to C.S.C.M.Rto & bs twokrono they all went of home in the groud send & the wan more an & they will pose ill tar nerses upe the carming Putler no donbt cr the no At lol en whe went home frounded. 0 s unng a brumn o the rve got by foll whe he was remning like road fget inhe You reed not manter thes a dne out foom Wdirgu bl amyne but you will knowt I cngo that was all their new Regiment comere but they are apply fr tget ra dalous gots is Bregodicts Hml b hame if they do whil hor who srute ic wthen he can get no ado Chall soroyts is well as the fame great in but I dont yellow as St e of then in a letter from you I meeking Well draya Know tater tha you t you keno bhever He sth no paper no tercel mind o the le of the seepto ao agood haddee The knowDid will be alige tas spen not in toily vee coloned the me ladde alat But meth tho cand tougtd ul is a great effort now t doing it don regingi the suit &nd th themo tthe Color da Iant ohi het Et AMys ta and
delighful Military Hospital Devenpwit My clarling Kis I did not Englas think when Ilost $1379/13 wrote toyou rtting in my dugout in Gallipoli on At 2 Joyedst month that my lonent letter would he written from here But is at papsens. On the Mery rest day s pil. of color and the Dr fiding I had a aomperating of 1020 told she I would have to go te the Hoopitat thy Solguted Ie hin tor ne ente ah one the the tad of thttin Iw aathertore & no I baded ver the Regiment to way Ine hiae wheo had fut gort tak the tay o wert gou. M apleated rant at he gutiry hack is opportunely. I heartgs rackon has also gove balk, wil dont they trought me alry t hundres othe Hopilats. te il hel e oe o on thrate I ponsel there, fen t h oid I wothdom net good there it was to hat & sent me of sbod Bont. By this times ws beeling th fame all ou me & one megnt I singht it i to und o thergs for I rolent Seathe blying dom fout hed to bit e in te ae in e the te seare woe myo ontent prprtion ter te comne at fe tete te gony in fonth shey I hed maten the Botel & mlk cndinean wiet I goo dresdfully then. Here wne an fee viny I hve just fronshed darner. S fit, poilen bokle Veguletter Hteried Raspbeny & cream I pihed by with a by Willian Bark tro glasses f bay puti mitte . I sad a gort of pruse of te thalla klenning aet in. There is tll a or opst reght lung of I am very breack Ionel he alrower u an about a fortnight from now
a M TEUONPOR JSEP1E 1SA Sear in Mr. B MM 29 Mitchell Street. Northcoli Victoria Anstralia 1 161 Cat N

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sent out at the risk of his life & shelled
the top off it & then they laid for attack
He popped up since enough & more
noticed the difference so while he isolated
the man in front ready to direct the other
man further along shot him right through

the head - we saw him carried away
after but didn’t fire on them. That came from
him. As it goes from day to day. I am

enclosing with this a photo of Violets
wee laddie. I don’t know if you have
received one. Mother sent it on to 
me. The  photo was taken after the
wee mite was only two days old.Very I am
^very sad today one Katie I had your photo with me
all through although I lost almost
everything else carried it all through
the fighting up till a couple of days ago
& now it has disappeared mysteriously
[[?]] sad one as I carred [[?]]
every day at your dear old smiling face.
it never failed to cheer me I still have
Basby's Bible with me.
God Bless & keep you  all my
dear ones. Heaps of love & kisses from
Dad & [[?]]

 

[[S?/]] Peninsula
26/8/15
My dearest sport
I found a few Egyptian stamps
among my belongings which I apparently was
apparently keeping to xxx send the wee laddie
in Egypt but forgot. I xxx had put them in
your envelope. In it also I have put the original
message we got from General Braidwood just
as it was taken down by the Telephonist
while they fighting still continued
I know you will preserve it carefully. As

you will see I got your letter which you completed

on the 12th June also a p.card dated the 16th June

telling me you had got a letter & p.card from

me. There were also a pair of [[?]] enclosed

& a pair of socks reached me in a separate

parcel by the same mail but I didnt look

at the postmark. A little while back a 

fighter sunk which had among it other
things 5 bags of mail for the 7th Battn. I think
the hankies & the pair of socks you xx
bought sent for me must have gone down in
her. Anyhow they are not here but
I am well off for socks. [[??]
[[?]] informs us a ^4th year medical student 

just left to complete his course [[))

 


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a big hurdle for his mother just as he was 

leaving the  xxxgame two

 [[???] Tom says that Herbert was better than when 

you last wrote

This must have been in the letter that got drowned,

l am sorry for poor Henry. One would have thought that the ins would have let him have [[?]]

for life

But you never know, perhaps Lyles 
brother needed it most still darling  we are 

having another little spell from the trenches.

We go back again tomorrow



 

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