TCD MS 11290/40 folio 1 recto
[?November 1918] On Active Service
WITH THE BRITISH
EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
Dear Mother
I got your letter today and can only say I think Bino is mad. I have just come back to the Company and lost my Kit through the train breaking down. We have got a new O.C. a very young chap but nice I think.
There seems to be the makings of trouble between him & our second command who is his senior however I dont think there is any chance of me getting mixed up in it. I came up over a howling wilderness of weeds & chalk but am