We have been patiently waiting for orders and sleeping

TCD MS 11290/26 folio 1 recto

TCD MS 11290/26 folio 1 recto

(Palestine April  [1918])
Dear Mother

I am afraid I have been very slack about writing lately but there really has been very little to write about.
We have been patiently waiting for orders and sleeping that is about all. Unfortunately I and Hayes have been transferred from our company to the 439th [Fld] Coy RE so you can change the address on all my letters though letters to the RARE will always get me as they are in the same division.
I am very sorry to leave the old company as I got on very well with the O.C. and the others but orders came out that all companies were to be cut down to their proper establishment so as we were two over strength the junior officers had to go