Letters from Robert Edmund Antill to his Parents, 1914-1915 -Part 17

Ward A.I. 
Sept 3rd 
  
Dear Mother, 
I applyed for passes yesterday 
& they are have been sent on to you. i hope 
you have recieved them safely. Who 
ever is coming along Tomorrow will they 
be as kind as to bring me along a shaving 
brush & if possible a razor (an old one). 
I recieved your stamps & paper safely 
yesterday morning & in the afternoon we 
went for a motor ride round London 
& then on to Lady Hamiltons place to tea 
at Hyde Park Gardens, we had a grand  
time & the tea dont mention it I think I ate 
for nearly an hour nice thin ham sandwiches 
why it was like feeding a donkey on 
air balls 
I remain 
Your loving son 
Bob

King George Hospital 
Ward A.I. 
Sept. 10th 1915. 
  
Dear Mother 
Having nothing much to do 
but to kill time I thought I might 
just as well write to you. After you 
left on Wednesday of course then 
started the feed, fruit dont mention it 
I think we ate till supper time & then 
had a supper of boiled eggs on top of  
it all, so you can gess I dint 
feel too comfortable about the stomach. 
Well as the night grew of older & we were 
all snoring soundly when all of a sudden 
we were woke with a biff & a bang & 
crack here & a crack there why it almost 
made me think I was back on the Peninsula 
again but by the time i had rubbed my 
eyes I found I was wrong it was the 
Zepps over London of course we all then 
dived out of bed & up the stairs for the 
roof but we never got there only half 
way & then came the orderly to [[?]] turn

us back, well needless to say there was 
an argument 9of which I was a looker 
on as my little bit of experience has 
taught me) & at last we returned to bed 
disapointed for we expected to get a glimps 
at least of them, but we dint. I see by this 
mornings papers that the casualties were 106 
& things happening like this begin to make 
one think, but still you know the old 
saying every dog has its day & I am thinking 
the Germans have had their day 
dont you. 
  
I remain 
Your living son 
Bob 
  
P.S. When Went under X Ray yesterday 
dont know for certain but think alls clear.

Ward A.I. 
King Georges 
Hospital 
Sept 14th 
  
Dear Mother, 
I saw the 
doctor yesterday & put 
it to him about getting 
out on Sunday but it 
was no good, I stuck to him 
for a good while but he said 
if I was well enough to go 
home for a day I was well 
enough for my discharge & 
as you know I am not for 
my wound has not finished 
discharging yet, so I let

it drop at that. While I was  
up on the roof yesterday 
Bill Theobald must have 
called for when I came down 
there was a note left on my 
locker stating that Mr. 
theobald & Son had 
called but that was all. 
I have asked all the 
sisters if any bdy was 
looking for me but they 
answered no so the only 
thing I can come to is it 
not being visiting day  
they would not let them 
in so they left the not 
at the door. We had a 
nasty axident yesterday 
one of the patients fell 
out of the window in the 
second story day room to 
the ground, when they 
picked him up they found 
his right arm & leg was 
broken so they rushed him 
into the nearest ward which 
was ours A.I & put him 
into a bed a few away from 
away from me he was 
groning some thing awful 
& in about an hour he  
died, I reconed he was very 
unlucky dont you. 
I remain 
Your loving son 
Bob.

Ward A.I. 
King George's 
Hospital 
Stanford St. 
Sept 16th 1915 
  
Dear Mother, 
If you should 
recieve a letter addressed 
L.Cpl. C Hawkins. Co. Mr. 
Antill. Park Rd. etc, you 
will know its alright. I ment  
to tell Lally yesterday when 
she came but I forgot. You 
remember me tellng you 
of the fellow in the same 
section as myself being 
in this hospital, well he 
has gone on furlough, & 

he has tried to draw up his 
money, so he asked me if I 
could give him a reliable 
address to give to the pay 
master, because they may 
not jhave his account made 
up & they will post it on. He 
is staying at one of the hotels 
in the west, so he thought it  
would be safer for it to go to a 
private address so he asked  
me if I could ablidge which 
of course I did as he [[?]] is one 
of my chums, so if it arrives 
you might bring it along with 
you on Saturday. It may not 
come as he may get payed up 
while he is there which I 
hope he does as it will 
save a lot of bother. 
I remain 
Your loving son 
Bob.