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have till I get settled or send me
the money and perhaps I can buy
something.

What do you think of my getting
to England? I gess I would never
have got here if it hadn't been that
a Colonel of the 10th General Hospital
at Rouen thought that I was too
young for France and saw that I had
Rheumatism. I was pretty well done
out. I do not know whether I will
have to go back to France directly
after I get better or not, but not if I
can help it. They do not consider a
private though as long as he looks
well, [even if?] he gets worse or dies when
he gets back to France. I can tell
you though that no person that has
not been through the thick of it
will never know what it is like; because
nobody could describe it. I can
tell you that Reg was lucky to miss
the Somme. I believe his division
is [on the - crossed out] at Ypres now.