Winton

Bournemouth

Hants

May 6^th /15

Dear Albert,

We had a letter from your Mother yesterday telling us that you had been wounded & giving your address so thought I would drop you a line or two to try & cheer you up a bit.  I can assure you that we were all very sorry to hear the bad news and sincerely hope it is not very serious & trust you are getting on as well as can be expected & hope you will soon be out of Hospital when you get well enough perhaps they will send you to some convalescent home or better still let you go home till you are quite well again let us hope that there will be no need for you to go to the front again for it must be terrible out there.  I am glad to say that we are all fairly well you Aunt & Cousin Eva sends their love & sympathy to you hoping you will soon be well again & we shall all be only to pleased to have a line from you when you are able to write.  Dear Albert I must tell you that we have been quite lively down here this last winter we have had over twenty thousand troops billeted in Bournemouth for nearly six months but I am sorry to say that they are nearly all gone for they have done the town a lot of good & it seems very dull now that they are gone.

            I do not think there is any special news to tell you now.  Bournemouth is about the same as it was when you were here so will close with best love from us all wishing you all good luck & a speedy recovery from your

            Affete Uncle

            W.E. Wells

P.S. I expect your Mother will send us news of you if you are unable to write

. W.W.