31 - I'm trying to get out of the army

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  • Speaker
    Devonport, England. February 16th 1919. Letter 31. I'm trying to get out of the army.
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    Dear brother, hoping this will find you in the pink as this leaves me at present. We have got the fever very bad here again.
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    We have got about 200 in this hospital now down with it, about seven deaths a day on average. It is still not quite as bad as the last time.
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    Well, I have been trying to get out of the army since the first day of the year and I should have been out the 3rd of January, but there is so damn much red tape they are trying to do me out of my passage back, but there is nothing doing, they got plenty of fight out of me
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    I have not done four years for nothing. Well, have you got plenty of work? Labour is unsettled over here.
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    Everybody is on strike. The country is in a hell of a state, plenty of Bolshevik and German money behind it, [of course].
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    Well, how is Herb Hatch and all the other boys? I suppose Ted and Mary are going to high school by this time.
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    Is Ted alright. You said he had a bad ear the last time you wrote.
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    Remember me to Sam, Flo and children. I heard Lillian is working, as I had a letter from Mother yesterday
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    Well, I wish you would drop a few lines when you have time. Hoping I will be able to see you all about 1920. With love and best wishes. From your brother, Lee.
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