Letters from George Alexander Hugh Murray to his family, 1915 - Part 5

Conflict:
First World War, 1914–18
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  • Documents and letters
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RCDIG0000957
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2 I will now close hoping you are all well & happy as I am onk or the b to I will now there with love from George I have not rein ses for a good whit Conparal Geore 2 Muirar 42 1 1DRI5d ORIE
t Btel It ansleste England 15/15 all at home wonderin appor you are when am for it is clore on a mot undeI have written but I have not had the charre before for we were or sea for th weeks& it was a drary trip I never seemed to be get ting any warer England. I had ty to come on deck as we were por ttrough Gibetta & got out by crawly + happing & saw she great firters gred in Southanfiton ature evening & we came fandely morning, thought art the train & event tthrough to lovet places. there ever you looked it was one mans of green We get to Hanchert aboutt o pr Sunday after ae have tk socch Elnanm 12 009
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CROSS SOCETY. FISH RED District F I Strettond WIOTORIA AUKILIARY HOME, HOSPITAL Telesnow: STRETFORD. No. 884, Traford Park. wne 1 191le All at home I am getting on fairty well & hope to be lable to walk property on a week or two. The srl is healed but the fmuniter are knotted ap & cannot strayghter my leg I epent may bushday in bed. All the Austratcon tin Hancherter have been shifted to another porpital and from there we have to go to London to the Bare from where we will get our furlough of reven days. We have had no pay for clor on 22 months & no chance of getting any We are looked after very well & could not be treasue any better by our own people ll the wound ed that would wath were taken to the stak Hyfadrome and had afternoon tea brought round and chocolatis 2 fruit There are a great crowd of Belaan peyle here & they are paveman 009
CROSS SOCTETY. BRITISH RED District. p o Stretford VIcTORIA AUKILIARY HOME HOSPITAL Telephone: 2 STRETFORD. No. 884 Trafford Park. 19t in the packs. Wisterian parks do not come within cooce of the Englishones. I do not know any one here but there are siven of us (inone ward & we are up to all kinds of tricks I am the ony one out of the 14th in Mancherter, but there are some in Barningham I hart not that a letter from home for clore on two month & not likly for a long time to come for our offerers do not know where we are I have in papsee or I would bet write to Bess & fim but I will do shory I wisle to Les but he will not get it for a long time for Free that the light houe have been taken without there houes & put intoaction No one is allowed out of the hospital before 12 o'clock + they have to be in by seven, o I have not much one uot for I shave to 55 to 1009
025 CTADOE 22049 BrottorE bed to have my te managed + it is therobers in the wartor when the lopes 46130 38 being stray werd that she time when it nu I will now close hoping that you are all wel I am your loving son George Do ro write to England but to the Bare at Alexandria O182 100
RED CROSS, SOCIETY. BRITISH STRETTORD DISTRION Ressnone Moteria Aumitary Home HOSPIEAI, Me. Ds. Frabors Park. Stretford. 2ad June 22 14 Allothome weeks since I I am getting on very well thas now saw a sart fired & not likely to go for some t yoe yet for they are in no hurry to shift as to Sondon Sir George Ken has plac a place fitted up for Aumration & it is full te overflrwving All the Annation have been treated right reyaey they have been invied out to seames purture, & conelths uhlt lotlgs lawnsteams greens are given free. Wone of us have received any letters for about eleven weeks not whely to receive thith for a time as shy are her on the Bare in alexan when we leave Sttetford she place where we are now, we have to so to London then to Weymouth near South ampton to start dritten againt setne are embart back again. I am she only one of our bastation about here I saw the Bughs who is only seventeen years old. He got wounded through the arm. we have heard a lot about the irecelities of the surks but do not know if they are taue but this I do know that they cought tone of our byhrs & cut his towme out & then let him go, but he and soon oter. Some of the sust. have been found pinned to the ground with their own bayonets. Isuppose R. M. Rae is home again. He was passed out as medicably infot while in bgypt the Warrack chaps have suffered very badly if the paperscan be relied upo Fro is a very dull country for you hardly ever ree a biight thy but when it rains that the tme that it is cold for a north & wind comise ther you have to dry to kep warm I have mmade 1009
a lot of friends west around hispital o they walt hear you any ve, o A, Ke he wens here are she westingsoue tions wort they emply econ CorO give thows and hands in two thifts. Mart of the work is done by girte whre has tfeen Inew aut onsinte ee in for se you are at this hirp by 13 tbld at 8.30 be be n &then you ther b again at 6 put it as fust carried out scat teft you Ihare not heard any traper have not rean his name in the thes is all I ban think of now soI will now slose hoping you wre oathove From your lovy for IRIP 109
105 10003 RED- CROSS -SOCIETY BRITISH STRETTORD DISTRIOT Motorta Aiiitary Homa HOOPIAI Telephone: Stretford. No. 664 Trafford Park. th June 2 5 Dear Sers I have not written to you uime left Crypt and that is a good while a so I willtry & tell you some of the rights I have reent there last few weeks After I left Egypton Sunday 12th April Iwent on board the Leiary Choon & thn a 12 dys sail to Lemnos island & stayed there for a few days & then forward to the siene of the War At Lemnos there was every kind of ship imaginable for there were close on 250 boats of all kinds when wer were about fifty miles away from yalopple we could hear the by guns booming & as we got nearer you could ree the shells burring & if you looked at a place once & looked again after a shell at hit it you would think that it was not the same place for some of the I war ships throw whells weyhing over a ton. On Sunday Aprit 25th we were ready to go ashore at anyti me but did not go tell monday maning. I was carriny wounded chaps all the night and it was there that I first saw a dead man. It did not look too nre but in a few days I was sered to it & could throw them out of the trench & get into their place. I only finue one that that was taken on our boat He was J cck bartiwel

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I will now close hoping you
are all well & happy as I am only
for the leg.
So I will now close
with love from George
I have not seen Les for a
good while
Corporal George Murray
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Corporal G Murray
Manchester
England
17/5/15
All at home
 I suppose you are wondering
where I am

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