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7 March 1919- My dear Father

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8/Queens
B. E. F.
7. March 1919.

My dear Father,

Thanks for two letters.  I paid off the
Civil Service Stores for tobacco & was rather
surprised to get another lot from them two
days ago.  I put it down to delay in the post,
as such events happen sometimes, but evidently as
I did not cancel the order they [illegible]  are
beginning again.  If you are passing would
you mind telling them to stop it & I will send
them a cheque.  I would send it now only
I don’t know if you will be able to stop the
next supply.

I find that somehow your telescope has
been swopped for another — just as good but
not the same identical one.  Probably it occurred
on a relief by another Battalion.  However I
hope you will not mind the difference.  The only
difficulty is that as the other is a Government
one, it will be the broad arrow.

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I can do nothing about Edginton.
As a Prisoner of War, he was off my
strength from the 21st. March, and I am
absolutely in the dark about the movements
of men afterwards unless I happen to
hear of them privately.  I am afraid that
he has died as a Prisoner of War, but
the only way is to find out from the
authorities.

Tournai Cemetery is at the S. W. end of
the town next door to the Civilian Cemetery.
I have just come back from a tour
round Messines Kennel and Ypres.
Interesting but cold.  I saw several
parts of the line from the Bosch point of
view, which I used to know rather better
from our own.  The only inhabitants of
the area are Bosch prisoners.
Yours
Jack.

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