Z681/27

Letter from Company Sergeant Major E Woodward, 'B' company, 2nd Garrison Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, Sialkot, India, to to sister Margaret at 20 Long Row, Pavenham.

1 May 1916

From: 1916 To: 1916

Dear Alice [wife] writes every week. Problems with other letter-writers. Upset by parting from Alice, but soldiers must not show it. Trials and weariness of war almost unbearable; happy lives broken and yet to be broken. Sometimes I think the War will last ten years, then again I say it cannot last this year through. If only we could count the days it would be an earnest looking forward to the coming of a new world. Alice will have to learn how to make Mum's gravy puddings. Alice is working in a munition factory but I don't care much for the idea. It is hard and dangerous work. I hear you have taken up typing. Sends snapshots taken by one of the sergeants [3 sheets].

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Woodward, Ernest,
Woodward, Margaret,
Woodward, Alice

family correspondence, Pavenham Long Row, World War One, Northumberland Fusiliers, India