Orderly Room

4^th

Rev^d T.W. Walters

Rev^d Sir,

            Thank you very much indeed for your nice letter and Men’s Service Report received this morn.  I consider it a very excellent one, and am very pleased to have one out here, I can assure you I shall often look at it, and in my thoughts be present at the monthly service.

I quite agree with you in omitting letters you have received, altho I have no doubt that after having been submitted to the Press Office, at London, they would have been alright.

Our life out here is very interesting in spite of being rough.  Our Battalion has had several tours in the trenches and I am pleased to say that the casualties have not been very heavy.

Of course I do not go to the trenches at the present time I am about 5 miles away.

Occasionally I meet the members of our Service who belong to our Battn, but not often, because I get so little time away from the office, usually I am on from 8 o’clock in the morning till 11 at night.  However when I do drop across them I give convey your kind regards.

I must thank you very much for giving Mabel and my parents a Report.  I am sure they will be most pleased with it.

I have a ‘Coalville Times’ each week and also a Parish Magazine so if far away I know of all that is going on.

I consider that the accounts of the Year Work brought forward at the Easter Vestry we very good and I should like you to thank both Churchwardens on my behalf for the excellent way in which they have conducted the affairs during the Year.

I am sorry to tell you that for the past week or more I have been far from well, altho I have made it light to my people.  I have had to go to the Dr, but as far as possible have kept my work up.  I think that it is a slight nervous breakdown, brought on by the strain of heavy work, you will understand that there is a terrible amount to be done in connection with the work out here and it practically all fall on my shoulders.  I think now I am pulling round, altho I cannot sleep at night.  I feel much better and hope within a few days to be quite right again.

I thank you most sincerely for your prayers, and can say that it is a very big help to one, to know that those at home are praying for our welfare out here.

I am sorry I cannot write you a longer letter this time, but I have so little time to spare, so I hope you will excuse me.

I trust Mrs Walters, the children and yourself are in the best of health.

Will write again when I have a few spare moments.

I cannot mention place, but I may tell you that for some time past we have been in a very hot place, and from all appearance it will be much worse.

With very kind regards

Yrs sincerely

Albert Will

P.S. Please give my kind regards to all the members of the Service.

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