Letters Of Henry Weston Farnsworth, Of The Foreign Legion by Henry Weston Farnsworth

Author:Henry Weston Farnsworth [Farnsworth, Henry Weston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Military, World War I, Germany, British
ISBN: 9781782891260
Google: IYsWAAAAYAAJ
Publisher: Lucknow Books
Published: 2014-06-13T04:00:00+00:00

Hotel St. Petersbourg, 33 & 35 Rue Caumartin, Paris, January 21, 1915

DEAR AUNT ALICE:

While I was eating sodden potatoes and salt beef out of a tin pail, known as the gammelle, in the room of the 15th Company of the first regiment of the Paris Battalion of the Foreign Legion, a letter was given me, and in it was a check for £ 5.2 s. from you.

I don’t know when my heart has so bounded with joy. My own funds being somewhat exhausted, I had for ten days been living on the regimental pay, sou per day and half a pound of tobacco every ten days.

I don’t believe any of your Christmas gifts brought more joy. I immediately obtained leave for the afternoon, and am now just out of a hot bath, am smoking a good cigarette, writing in a comfortable hotel, and am brimming with gratitude.

On the 31st of this month we leave for Lyons and on the 15th of February for Albert, a small town on the Somme, where I am glad to say the fighting is active.

In the meantime I have found four sympathetic friends in my company and like the rest of them. The work is hard, but everyone is glad to do it, and we all—I am not writing to hear myself talk, as someone said of Hall Caine—love France and are willing to do our little best for her.

I think of you, in your rooms in the Vendome, all peaceful—so am I until the 15th of February—and thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have provided me with little comforts, and during the life in barracks my body as well as my heart will remind me of your everlasting kindness.

Your affectionate nephew,

HENRY

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