Letters like wine

"Keep the ball rolling and tell them to keep on writing letters, where we are now, [they] are like good wine - they keep our pecker up. Lately we have undergone many experiences - but 'Mum's the word' says the censor."

"What sort of an Easter did you have? Ours was not much good. Everything was so wet and cold. On the Sunday Morning some of us were marched to a field close by and there our Chaplain held a service. But it was so beastly wet and cold that much of our time was occupied in thinking of what we did the same time last year."

"At present we are doing all sorts of work and soldiering. During spare moments there is nothing else to do but play cards, wash clothes (when opportune) and cook our tucker."