Z549/17/43

Letter sent from Felixstowe by Cyril Verdcourt to Louis Verdcourt.

Friday 18 October 1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

Dear Louis, Thank you very much for your letter; I certainly cannot grumble about my correspondents for they write very regularly. I hear from Kathie every day and rarely a day passes, but what somebody else’s letter arrives as well. Frank has not written as yet and I was afraid that he had forgotten me so it is a pleasant surprise to know that he thought so much of my letter. I should very much like to hear from him, I do not require anything other than food, thank you Louis, although I certainly do require that to be comfortable. Some of the fellows at Landguard reckon it is worse than being at the front, but they are of the particularly mad headed type. I have had some quite good arguments lately and though perhaps I am one of the best informed of those who hold our opinions in D2, I am not more enthusiastic than half of my hut mates. I have not discovered among my immediate comrades as big a jingo as let me say – well – Newham. It is impossible to save much if anything, out of the army pay, and towards the end of the week one has to be careful Stamps run away with quite a lot and various little expenses crop up week after week, and so when mama’s birthday draws near, I am afraid it will be necessary to borrow from you, but there is plenty of time for that isn’t there? The news looks brighter and brighter as regards the end, although it will hardly be such an end as we desire unless the German people actually reconstruct their Government, and my hopes lie in that direction. Certainly since I have been in the army, my opinion of the good sense of the soldiers has been much elevated and I think they will demand their rights after the war, in a way which will ‘put the wind up’ our legislators. Maud and yourself are to have different photographs, at least that was my intention. Please remember me to Maud. I am Your loving brother Cyril

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Verdcourt, Cyril,
Verdcourt, Louis

army, Landguard Camp