Reference
X985/5
Title
Undated letter from William George Tompkins, 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, to his wife
Date free text
1915 or 1916
Production date
From: 1915 To: 1916
Scope and Content
Undated letter from William George Tompkins, 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, to his wife as follows: “Dear Wife I have just been before the Doctor have had some medicine feel a bit better going again tomorrow don’t expect shall get so very hard done by only takes a matter of time & patience plenty of both. I hear we are to have a pay day this week how I hope it will come as you need extras now its so cold although I am not yet entirely broke I had a nice glass of Horlicks Malted Milk today they charged 3d for it bit it was worth it. I am on another soon as I get a chance again. Plenty of Recreation here where I am staying YMCA, Church Army & Scottish Churches Association etc. I am near the place where we came to from Landguard where we were training for about 10 days so the neighbourhood seems a bit familiar though no place can take the place of Home Sweet Home. I hope that will very soon be the very next familiar place for me. Oh how I pray Night & Day that Good Luck will soon follow Tommy’s footsteps so that Good Happy Times will return & we can really say again Shall us Lets Dear Wife. Now in Closing please don’t worry about me but keep up & keep on praying. Oh tonight I shall earnestly pray for God’s Blessing on us all & for better times to speedily come. Now God Bless you Guard you and keep you safe from all harm & always watch between us & protect us both. With my Heart’s full Love and Heaps & Heaps of Kisses & all you wish for yourself God grant all come true.
Now Good Night
God Bless You (MISPAH)
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