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8/ Queens.
17. 7. 18.

My dear Olive,

Many thanks for yours & also for letters from Father Mother &  Cecily.  I have been very busy the last few days & though we are out of the line, the weather has been beautiful & I have taken the Battalion out all & every day to get them away from their billets, which are extremely uninteresting, to some lovely country about 4 miles off, where we do a little battlefighting

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& sleep a lot.  The men or rather boys seem to enjoy themselves out there & we got them some cricket & various odds & ends of games. Ronald Brookes has joined up & is becoming the image of Jo.  I expect the latter to come over some time, as he is not very far off as birdmen go, but he appears to have a dud machine or something so may not fly over. It is very pleasing to hear that the Bosch has attacked

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somewhere other than here. Perhaps he will be so occupied there that he won’t be able to do anything anywhere else, & we shall be able to enjoy the summer in peace.

Love to all

Jack.