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From Aldershot

Dearest May

I hope you are quite well as it leaves me the same. Perhaps I shall come home at Christmas, after all. Look in Aunt's letter, for part about coming home. Well, I hope your work went down all right. We all have troubles and trials, but with a little pluck, and grit, you win through all right. We went a 16 mile route march yesterday, with packs, ammunition, bayonets, rifles, in fact we had everything. 4 miles of this march was over a boggy plain, up to our knees (without exaggeration) in sand, mud and water. Two horses which sank in the mud up to their heads had to be hauled out with ropes. Before we got back the fellows weren't half carrying on. As soon as we got our packs off and rested, the fellows were as happy as ever. We are learning shooting, and bayonet fighting now. They have been seeing about our allotment money, so you will hear of it shortly. Have you heard anything of Wilfred Saunders lately? How are the boys getting on up there? Have you had any unusual happenings at Wolverton lately? Does "Barber's Picture Palace" still go all right? Has anybody up our way enlisted lately? Are all your mates all right? I have wrote to Aunt Jane, but I have not had time to write to Reg or Mrs Cox yet. Have you heard from Reg yet? Is Mr and Mrs Cope all right? They have not had a Zeppelin raid up there for a good while, have they? Well I will write again soon. Cheer up, and smile.

With fondest love from

Albert x x x x x x x

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