Letter · 5 Sep 1916 · Bulford, Wiltshire, Great Britain and Ireland
Impatient for the Front
Eric died on the 7th of October 1916 during the Battle of Somme.
Extracts from this letter
"At last we are under orders to leave for France at a moment's notice, and are now anxiously awaiting our final order to 'git'. None of the other Rgmnts [Regiments] Officers have left without a month's training, and here we received orders, under a fortnight, to pack!..."
"I thought I should be in a funk when I received orders to leave for the Front; but I am just the opposite and am impatiently waiting the chance to get into it! I had to have my wrist lanced again the other day, and yesterday the Dr said he would recommend a week's sick leave if I wanted it; but I was not chancing missing getting away."
