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‘drill before breakfast’, Arthur Smith, 4 April 1915, France

A page of a handwritten letter.
A page of a handwritten letter.

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Dear Sir,

I have now been out in France a fortnight. I am getting on quite well in the army. Food is also good and plentiful. Of course, I find the life much rougher from that which I have been used to, but it is a fine experience all the [same].

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