Letters from Robert Edmund Antill to his Family, 1917 - Part 3 of 5

Reg No 1228 
B Coy 
65 Battn A.I.F. 
Worgret Camp 
Wareham 
10.4.17 
  
Dear Mother, 
Just about time 
I wrote what do you think, 
well the holidays are over & 
I havent been home yet I tried 
this time but train travelling 
is allowed for only 3 per cent 
per Battn at present & as per 
usual some others got those  
3 passes any way my turn wont 
be long now. 
We went into Bournemouth 
for Sunday & Monday of course 

we had to walk & must say 
had a very fine time then, a 
lot of London people are down 
there on holidays & the town 
is quite lively, it is rather an 
expensive place to be in & 
money dont go far in such 
places.
Girls, why the place was
full of them & as per usual
all the Australians were
carting one about any way
its a bit of a change from
camp life.
We handed our pay books
in today for pay day next
Tues. today week & I put
a little note inside address
to our O C asking for
extra pay to the amount

of £10 I dont like my
chance of getting it but I
can do with it all the same
if one dont ask one will 
never recieve.
I have heard nothing more
about your registered letter
So you had better try &
trace it & I will also get
you to send along a couple
more pounds well I think
you had better make it
three of my money & I
might be able to send it
back if I get this big
pay.
I will now close hoping
all are well
I remain your loving
son  Bob

P.S. Hope Pater is  
progressing favourably.

AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH
MILITARY FORCES 
Reg No 1228 
B Coy 65 Battn A I F 
Worgret Camp 
Wareham 
13.4.17 
  
Dear Mother  
Recieved your most 
welcome letter yesterday dinner time 
& how quick it came, I sent my  
letter & got a return in less than  
a day & a half, it seams rather hard 
about that of other registered letter & 
I sincerely hope it will turn up before 
long. 
I am now attending a  xxxxxxxx school 
here in this camp, it is for genral 
drill use & we are being instructed 
by an imperial staff & they make 
one moon about a bit, the school 
finishes today week, I do not 
mind it a bit for it freshs ones 
memory up a good deal.

AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH
MILITARY FORCES 
Yesterday down here was very  
cold day also showery but  
to day is splendid just like 
a mid summers day except for rather
a strong wind. 
I recieved Dollys & Fathers  letters 
the day before I recieved this one 
& am glad to here all are goin  
on well at home 
I will now draw to a close 
as it is just on time to fall in 
I remain 
Your loving Son 
Bob

1228 65 Battn 
Wareham 
16.4.17 
  
Dear Mother. 
Have just recieved  
your letter which we have been  
after for so long it has been 
all over the place down to 
Weymouth Ect. 
Have very little time before 
fall in so cant stop to 
write hoping all are well at 
home as myself 
I remain your loving son 
Bob.

Reg No 1228 
B Coy 65 Battn A.I.F. 
19.4.17 Worgret Camp 
Wareham 
Dorset 
  
Dear Mother. 
Hope you recieved wire 
safely & as you see by that I am 
leaving to go back to Perham  
again & from there to France & I 
think this time it is right. 
Orders came through
last night that all men belonging 
to the 4 division have got to 
return to their units as that 
same division in their last 
fight & have suffered awful 
causalitys & the very latest is 
that the 14 Battn came out  
with 10 men + those were more 
dead than alive, just think what

a cutting up they must of had it 
seams too dreadful to think of. 
As regards to leave I 
know very little but if there 
is any possible chance I am 
on it quick & lively, in one  
way I would sooner stop hear 
then again I am pleased I am  
getting back to the old 14 again. 
I can hardly xxxxxx make 
it out yet for I have been 
away so long but there I shall 
soon get used to it. 
Well I think I will 
close & await events, hoping one  
& all are well at home 
I remain  
Your loving son 
Bob