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QSR1915/3/3/3
Title
Letter from Harrington Thorpe
Date free text
1915
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From: 1915 To: 1915
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A letter undated from Harrington Thorpe.
The Lord & Gentleman,
I should like to know if you will [but] me under the Probation Act & to come up for judgement when called upon.
As I am a soldier with 8 months service in & fully trained & owing to the trouble which I caused which I was very drunk at the time. But I am very sorry that it [as] occured in my past its, I am a married Soldier with a family & I should be pleased if you would deal with me very lightly & that I will promise the Lord & Gentlemen that I will not have anymore intoxicating drinks of any description & I will make a fresh start & turn over a new leaf for the sake of my wife & little children & I hope & trust with all my heart that you will study the case through & send me away to the front & that will make a man of me at once as I have got a good character while I have been in the Army so will you please do your best for me & let me go to the front straight away just for my wifes sake & then she will know that i am serving my country & doing my share of fighting as well asthe other married soldiers is doing today. At the present time asI wish to be a soldier & nothing else till the war is at its end.
Yours respectively
Private H Thorpe
1st Reinforcements 1/5 Sherwood Foresters
Luton
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