Captain/Major Harold Ward Correspondence, item 787

• February 1, 2019 21:24:59 Thomas A. Lingner

  No 35

  10/1/18

  My Own Darling,

    We are still here although

  the weather has changed again. After

  the snow yesterday afternoon a rapid 

  thaw set in which has continued

  all to-day. You can imagine how

  wet everything is. We have had

  a quiet day preparing for an 

  inspection by the G.O.C. to-morrow.

  The Brigadier came round this

  morning, he seemed pleased with

  life & as usual was very nice

  to me - but of course never talks

  about the things I want to. Did 

  I tell you that a new C.O. came

  to one of the other Bns & he turned

  out to be the officer who was

  Commandant of the School of Instruction

  I was at, at the Station Hotel York

  in 1910. We had a talk about that

  course yesterday. Wish he had

  come to us in place of the fellow

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