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Letter to Mr Thomson from a BB member at training camp

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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
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
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Date
1915
Size
27.5 x 21.8 cm
Type
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection