HG12/14/3

Letter and envelope from Henry Hugh Longuet Longuet-Higgins, 48th (1st Northamptonshire) Regiment, BEF, Germany to [Albinia] Cecil Bazeley, Matson Rectory, Gloucester.

10 and 13 Feb 1919

From: 1919 To: 1919

With the letter sends a 'Hazebrouck 5A' [map - not present]. Has been really busy - 6 weeks march ending on 24 December, a week of settling down and getting Christmas celebrations over, and then 'I bust my elbow up' and couldn't write for a fortnight. Thanks for the tie. Appreciates invitation to Matson for next leave, but it is out of the question; will have to see folks who will be able to advise about the future. Envies all the dances and parties. All the interesting people are departing and those that are left have seen little or no service; there is the barest minimum of officers. Managed to get to the opera at Cologne. Writer is the brigade education officer, which covers an immense amount of country. Is also chaplain to 3 distant villages, and brigade librarian.

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Longuet-Higgins, Henry Hugh Longuet,
Bazeley, Albinia Cecil Bazeley,
Longuet-Higgins, Albinia Cecil

family correspondence, Germany, opera, chaplain, librarians, EDUCATION