Letters from George Alexander Hugh Murray to his family, 1916 - Part 7

thongh Tonkr write agen
I wrote to the address that
you sent me but no good.
This is a prest countly
for
rain for hardly at day par.
to now witout mo sain
falling & today was a crowner
I was the heaest I have ever
Seen
Hrs hard to write much for      
every thins has to be consned
you
& you cannot say what
would like to
I have lost my new plate of
teith so have to do the
fert with the few that
mort
The
have
lef
wes sast op00 orock
 

Hi aole here af my t
so what must it the like in
the middle of wirte exper-
cally as the ground wichsh
You much more than the
Chathe sort & it is while
chore
b
staf wnt the targan
am qute well and hope
aft at home are the same
I had a letter from Charkes
Genrpson (the address hre
You sent me). The Letter was
follow
me all over the
country f
forey

s
I have nothers whe to sayth
time so an Bevor fir
Your sean Dersle

OR1
 

stare
Srance
of
3/9/16
All at home
s coming out
of the trinkes this tome
have received three littes
and a pand one from
Bers, Since & home, but the
best of at
tI received on
the first I have
from Sir
had from him since
arriveng in this county
though I write times
wthost number
I was very wchy duron
our stay in the tenches this
time I got knocked twice
of shell come
with puces
but not too) hard to do
any damage
Last night I received two
Warrach papers &f a couple
 

ofatter
General Dirdward presented
cribbons to those who were
recommended for haven in
our first incounter with the
Germans At Poyures &
I ran say that the fourth
Bryadd hass so har toped
she scone for they received
fifty oad duvrations
tice as many as any
other Bry ach
We are now about hoirty
wiks from the fering ti
but you can seas the
cntat roar of the
yous so you fan iane
be lie
what it mus
when you are havin
the all more adlet
thrown at you &
them farter at orsong
for when one bands
 

within tn to liften
yorts of you st is not a

vey mos sensationf
if you do not get foe
esh a paedl of ison you
you get covered in
wat & that falking from
or heype is not thoe
plasant for I have
expenincet it may
hopes
I cannot think of any the
more this hove so Iwill
chse fom your hor
can to Gwthr
Leore
 

France

5

79-1916

All at home,
I have not had a letter
from home for a while now
shouh one cannot expect tos
much when one is contenually
shilten from one place to another
forther one never sets settled
in any of the bellets & some
of the billets are not much
better than Pepsties for they are
nersher chan nor keep the
rain out of which we are
getting pleng at present
when it pomes down it makes
no pretence but somes down in
a regular tonent
soday was the first was news
I had seen for a long time
though I am practually in
one of the prottest spits on
 

the Wertern front but when
be
one is in tine he never knows
what is poiry on his right or
left & never has the in
clination to find out, for all
be thtime he is lookin
after him self & that takes
a bit of doing especially
when there is a bombardmet
or the enemy puttey over a
barrage
Today was the first we
heard about the By Neyp
raid on England & of them
busying one down I bert
there was some great se
forcerg for it was the
jirst that ever fell on
Ewhh sort
It will be well over tww you
since I joined by the time
you receive this letter
t
in that time I have
1OR
 

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seen many different- places
but trs foot-stoppen
inFrance p was the
score for one has to walk
from & to the battle from
up
o when we so out so
t be 25t 30 miles
back & then have to march
that distance back again
but now that we dre poin
to a vew front-where
the Huss wse the pas ver
freely of other Colonial
regiments suffered ver
heavely in the beginneng of
the war, this all mystt be
changed but I think
I would rather have the
lead than the Pas
It is getting very winten
in sooe
weather now
places snow has fallen
o what must it be
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4
like in worter No wonder
she foor Somniies were
dyny from frost bitc bed
we I suppose we will
surveve it some how for
it is said that we are
one of the lardsest races that
are about dere
Well, I cannot think of
anythey more at presest
a I willrey of
From your love
Son Brother
Geor
OR
 

1
re
74
all at home
2
It is now well over four
weeks time I received a letter but I
receive papers more regularly but
they are not so mde compared
with letters
Will you can see my the heading
that our Battation has been
shilted to another front & is
was about time we were or
these would
have been showe
of us left for we have been
bonry very heavely especially
the ferttime we went into
Poseres in the Somme disbect
when we lost 14s all cank
the first 24 hous our com
pany was in so that is a fan
average out of 225 but 30r
eve serome ve to there
 

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