Letters from Francis (Ken) Evans to his family, 1915-1917 - Part 4

II
from what he told me I
think it is lung trouble
Before I left Australia I alloted
four shillings per day of my pay,
to be paid into my account in
the commonwealth Bank, the A/C
was to be transferred to London, so
as I could draw upon it if I
wished which has been done, &
part of the money has been paid in
although the A.I.F are usually
about three months in arrears
Up till the present I haven't drawn
any of it, as I haven't wanted 
any, however I wrote for £5
about two weeks ago, & received
a reply yesterday saying
 

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that the A.I.F had prohibited
registered letters to soldiers
in France, and of course it
is unsafe to send money by
non-registered post, the only
alternative which seems at all
practicable is for them to send a
cheque which I am writing them
to do, however I will probably
have some trouble in getting
it cashed.
I am not telling you this
because so as you will send
any whatever you do as
I have some and am not hard
up
 

IV
This is just another
of the annoying restrictions
imposed by the A.I.F. on the 
soldier
We have been out of the 
line for about three weeks &
had a fairly easy time
One of the men carried a
pet rabbit about with him
for about a fortnight, I am 
sure he must be a West Australian
& doesn't know what a pest they
are in the eastern states, however
yesterday another man saw
the rabbit running about
& he promptly killed it
Am sure that man must be
 

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from the Eastern St, as
it was the most natural thing
for him to do.

We had Australia rabbit

for tea last evening

I hope you had a good
holiday at merriang, and

no doubt minnie & Edie

would enjoy themselves

in Sydney

It was funny that girl

writing to Father for my address

She  is engaged to a chap in the 

artillery

With much love to Father, Minnie
& yourself

Your loving Son

F. Evans

France

July 22nd 17

My dearest Minnie,

I have not received

any mail from home for 
 a good while no doubt it 
has been lost in those boats

that were sunk recently.

I believe there was a 
mail lost bound to

Australia not along ago,

I wrote a lot of letters

about that time I hope

they were not on that

boat

I heard from Gerald

about a fortnight 

ago he is quite well

II

We came out of the 
line two days ago the

last time in was not
as bad as usual

There has been a spell 
of cool weather lately,

and some rain.

There is not much
news that I can write
about

With much love to 
Mother Father & yourself
Your loving brother

F. Evans