Monthly Archives: May 2015

May 3^rd

Just a line to say I’m all right. Not much going on here nowadays. Weather lovely except for a little rain yesterday. Very fit & smiling. Love to all

Ted

May 2

Dear Ben

Here are your Zoo tickets, I trust they will help you to spend a happy hour or two there. Percy says hang on to his cards & don’t part with them, but show one and write your name in a book, & then you’ll always be able to get into the Royal Pav.

Will you do something for me please? Thanks. I want you to get me from Hugh Rees a cover for ARMY BOOK 153. He has a special kind, the same shape & leather as those little writing blocks you get at Hugh Rees. It has a talc cover on one side for putting a map in. Send it along as soon as you can.

No news here; all well, lively weather, trenches quite comfy, but it is drizzling a bit today-

I hear poor Banks has been killed; I’m most awfully sorry.

Got a Tatler & Bystander today, many thanks.

So long

Lots of love from

Ted

The enclosed cutting made me roar! Show it to Dick.

Army Book 153 – 
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/machine-gunner-pocket-book-plus-161889845

Garland day

Dear Mother

Just a line to say all is well- We are in the trenches once more & have been in for 5 days now, I have no idea how long we shall stay in, some time I expect. The cake arrived safely, very many thanks for it.

Lovely weather still, beautifully warm & sunny all day. This morning at 4.30 a.m. the Germans opened the ball with a fairly heavy bombardment which lasted about an hour but did very little damage. I don’t know what their game was, but I expect it was a sort of May day greeting!

No we have not been in all this heavy fighting round Ypres, though some Indian troops were employed I believe. Many thanks for the Neuve Chapelle story; the map on the back is really excellent. My dear, you must have been simply overwhelmed with cuttings lately, for Neuve Chapelle was the star turn till Hill 60 and Ypres knocked it out.

Not much going on here. Jack Lodwick has got a DSO for good work with machine guns; did I tell you he was married? He got married when he was on leave last month.

Sorry for a dull note, but I must try & drop a line to someone at home each day- Best love to all

yr loving son

Ted.

The date of Garland Day seems to vary from place to place, being celebrated on the 1st, 12th or 29th May.