HG12/13/13

Letter from Henry Hugh Longuet Longuet-Higgins, Headquarters, Cantonments, Potchefstroom, South Africa to Edith Augusta Mary Bazeley.

15 Jun 1916

From: 1916 To: 1916

'Polo was ripping for the 3 months it lasted.... a general order forbidding government horses ... to be used for polo pit the kibosh on it.' Has a puppy named scraps who is popular. Responds to items in Edith's letters. It is not true that all the commissions are going to the Dutch. Mention of brother John; house is 39 Bedford Gardens. They had 2 days [following marriage] before he had to return t front line trenches east of Arras. He is now a bit more to the south. Writer has to do lots of hospital work. One of writer's cousins [Katherine Edith Monica Bomford] has just got engaged; another married the day after John; her man is a surgeon in the Royal Navy. [David James Williamson married Letitia Constance Joan Bomford] Comments on books Edith has sent. Comments about the horses the writer rides - Septimus is lame so now has a dark grey called Robin. Comments about brother John's wedding; would liked to have been there.

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Longuet-Higgins, Henry Hugh Longuet,
Bazeley, Edith Augusta Mary,
Longuet-Higgins, John Esmond Longuet,
Bomford, Katharine Edith Monica,
Bomford, Letitia Constance Joan,
Williamson, David James

general correspondence, South Africa, World War One, chaplain, polo, dogs, specific marriages, horses