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Letter to Mr Thomson from a BB member at training camp
Unknown, 1915, Document
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Letter to Mr Thomson from a BB member at training camp
Letter to Mr Thomson from a BB member at training camp
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29817
Title
Letter to Mr Thomson from a Boys Brigade member at training camp
Description
A page from a World War One scrapbook (vol 1) showing a letter dated January 1915 describing life at an army training camp:
Dear Mr Thomson
Very many thanks for your card and note thereon. It arrived when we were busy at Divisional Training and as our daily work usually left us tired out I have, I fear, been rather slack about acknowledging it. It gives me great pleasure to send you all the best possible wishes for 1915.
We expected leave about Xmas but it was cancelled. Probably just as well, too, because it would unsettle us if we returned even for a day or two to a decent Christian existence. Navvying, route marching, skirmishing and fighting "battles' in rain and mud, eating the eternal stew and sleeping on a hard floor is our lot. Very soon, however, we shall go to the front and shall have plenty to keep us lively.
Kindest regards from
Yours sincerely
Jas. G. Dickson
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1915
Size
27.5 x 21.8 cm
Type
Document
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
This image is taken from the 1st of 2 scrapbooks compiled during World War One by the Thomson Family who were living at Glengyle Terrace in Edinburgh. Most of the items pasted into the scrapbooks are press cuttings, leaflets and ephemera but a couple of articles, such as letters and a ration book, give personal details and an indication of the impact of war on the family. Many of the letters of correspondence are sent to Thomas Thomson. Thomas Davidson Thomson was only 3 years old at the outbreak of war and so, his parents must have collated and maintained the scrapbooks, which span the full period of the war, on his behalf.
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Thomson Family WW1 scrapbooks (volume 1)
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