Letters from George Alexander Hugh Murray to his family, 1915 - Part 12

Conflict:
First World War, 1914–18
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  • Documents and letters
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so you can imagine how hyd up they were. They were beaten off, but returned again after midnygat, and by the paper they silled and injured many people, but the damage done was not publukid. I am sending you under a separate cover a few of our but deryns. They do not look near as good in paper a they are Wirter is setting in very quickly and for days at a time the whicks Lops never muse you can hardly ree any dirtanceahead, and you can smell them. There came in to the ward that I am in that I looked at for a long time I thought it was Lis for it was the image of him and one would pais for the other anywhere There are a terrible
rrowd of our chaps here. As fart as they to out others take ther place. In a hospital near this camp shere are over two & a hatf thousand Auchaliars & N. Zealander and some of them are very bady wounded. Inter Fever has pulled a terrible lot of our fillows down & some of them are that then that thy cannot walk about I witt have to close now if I am to ratt the mail to I will say good be for the preient though it I will be a long the time before any of us have a shame of returning o Gooddye rom your loven son C Fror Thoogs the letters from Hesige and Sis souell send them alsond yale Be hane fa with a petrote dust and hat fuenchs It was mo to day but I hn torbed. 2 Lond from tends lelte pest Gardener Jumped of siate e The hard graunet he is wreti
Eprom Surrey 22/0/15 Dear Sena I do not know where all the letters that you have written to me have gone to, for it is over six weeks since I had a letter from home, and most of the other chaps in the ward are jetty Aurtration mait. I got a letter from A Gunn a few days ap. He said that he wrote to me but I never re ceived his letters. This is a cold country for now you hardly ever see the sun + it is geherally raining or there is a very theavy for which does not Left for day at a time It must be very lnhealtky for you can smell it, and it is a good shield for the Gepps when they come over the came three nights running I saw them the first right but not after. It was a lovely right to
IRIA watch them. I was to go with a back to the Bare Depot on the 20t but on the p morning that I was to so I had a slifhe mifortune and had to go to the Doctors and get about my right eye shtded up. It happened about nine in the morning, one of my mater was in bed and I putled the blankets off im and he got wild picked up one of his by now thod boot, and threw it at me. I was watk ing away and gurl looked over my shoulder and stopped the Hboot. I had no time to dogge and if I had not turned it would have caugt me on the back of the head. Well, I got a lovely black eye + a few stittes out- of it anyway, sot will be here for a fewdays yet for the stuches will not be taken out for ten days so I may get another firrloas oet of wm 1009
3 There are thomands of cturnatian around here but not one from around home but there are plenty out of our own brixade of this monsh was ret The 22 apart for the selling of flays for the wounded & there out fibting and a -prige of £5 ps was to be given to the first one who got a whol see- of the plaps I a dn as fiom forned yet for you never said so. I have not heard from sis shoush Shave written to him pretty repelar In the letter I got from it gann he said he saw where Les had been wounded but I cannot find out anything about him althongs I have written to the toar offices but thy could not tell me amyting the last word o got we from him was dated on crapest and he said he was the 17th quite well a was his mate F bowles but I saw where I bowls was badly wounded on the 17 and has nnce died from his wounds, so you do not know how bon you are saft when you are in that place, and some of the
4 Tommies, who have been through the rhreat from Mons &Weanve Chopfel said that they were nothin to what they had to put up wish in Gatlyoh war for you could get out of the bullds in France but in the Beninrula you are under fire all the time you are there. Tue by the papers that our battation has the youngest Officer Cammand m it than any other battation to the Kings Fone. He is the sst COfficer we have had and he is only 2 plyosold f lot if our chaps are gertin maniea for the war lffire to they say with give a fire pass to then wives to ro to Surtatia 2 hes of think is is all this time tooa From your loving brother Geore
Woolwich 11/11/15. Dear Bess. you may get this letter before you have started on your holdays. I got a couple of letters of yours a few days ago and about a doyen from home and a couple from dim. He is still lamenting his fate that he cannot join the forces, but there must be something else in store for him Since writing home I have been sent back to a hospital for a time to see what they are goin to do wish me. No one ucems to know. The place am at now is near te Arsinal and it is nothin but cannons goin off day o nyer. so we think we are back in Gallifol again but I can tell you I am in no hunry to
Hughie Cameron of Warrach. He did not know me. One of his mates told me he had scen sis on a horpital boar but did not know where he was eoin to. This would be a bad place if you had a bad head for it is near the arsenal and they are con tinually terting ammunition - and cuns. When some of the shelts explode they shakl the whole ground and we are a mele from them they are only hatf charges so you can cuess what a few of them would be like when fired at you I am havin a very bad time with wothacke. It never sops and scannol it it out for if I do the plate will be no good to me. Hy wound is complitily healed up now you can ony bee a very soall hole just where the bullitment in & out again. I is raiving steadily to night and it may ke on fa a 009
return to that inferns I am rending a few cards of the Wertminister Abbey I have been all through itt and it is a right of a life time to see the old places. The old Abbey is turned into a horpital and it is sut a lovely place to ree though it is ober a tousand years old I have not much time to spare in order to catch the Aus. mail so I will have to close With love from your loving brother George
Abbey Wood Woolwich 10/20/15 Albect home. I am writing this letter but I do not know if it will catch she mail. This country is getting very cold. I was out one night and when I was coming home it bygan to rain but before morning the county had a very different- aspect for there was a lovely fall of now. It was about four inches deep and we had a lovely time snowballing each other. The next night the now groge and it is like wathing on glass. I do not know when I will leave this place for they have given me some work to do. I have charge of 200 men so I have not much time to myself When I was in the mers one morning cond not help lookin at a chap out Batt. When he wont outside of the5 I followed him but did not ask him his name but when linner time came I had to ask him his name but you could never guess who he is. It is

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