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Letter sent from Egypt by Cyril Verdcourt to Maude [Verdcourt]. Written in pencil.

Tuesday 2 March 1920

From: 1920 To: 1920

From: 32549 C Company, 17th Royal Sussex Regiment, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Egypt Dear Maude, Thank you for your letter dated 15 February. Your wish that Caz could bear me company to the bitter end is granted for he is staying with the orchestra until 15th March and my new job as a pioneer has placed me in a tent next to his so we shall see more of each other than ever. I am very pleased to learn that you are getting on so well and that Louis has been enabled to start work again by the reopening of the Cars [Commer Cars]. It was fortunate that you were able to retain your job while Louis was out and jolly good of you to do it too. I shall be very glad to start work again and really settle down to something definite, for I am terribly fed up with this and sometimes wonder whether I shall ever be fit to earn my own living, for I do not seem to land on my feet every time as some people do. Doubtless had I been a 1914, 1915 or 1916 man I should have been a great success as a soldier (had scruples permitted) and had I managed to keep out altogether I might have been a passable engineer, but now I fear I am a wash-out all round. Maleesh! Thank you for your postscript. I wonder - - - well ‘yimkin’! or as the French say ‘peut-ètre’. I am Yours truly Cyril Love to Louis and thanks for his letter

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Verdcourt, Charles Cyril,
Verdcourt, Maude

army, Egypt, demobilisation