A SOLDIER'S LETTER.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 24 January 1918, Page 4

A SOLDIER'S LETTER.

Mrs iiarratt, of Levin, lias jus received letters from iier two soil, \V la iter and Eric, who were u London when they wrote in iNo veniber. Eric, in liis letter, xe lates liow lie met Jack Holdaway wlio was over on a fortnight's lo' ave from I'ranee. They fell 11 with Bob Jones, Les Smith ant li-in Thompson, all of Levin, ant these six resolved to spend a jollj jvening in each other s company They dined together, chatted ovei their home town and its people vished them all a Merry Christina: uul then adjourned to a theatre t< >ee "Brewster's Millions." 1 v.as a great treat to find such. hap ,y comradeship so far from home Eric Barratt is in the MotoJ transport Corps, and extensiv< ,vork was in hand_ despatching; notors and men to Italy, where 1 vas probable lie would be sent He says: "I do not expect to set indent Home, nor Home of to lay as the capital of Italy. T vill not be the trip of a tourist, J enow, but I hope that we slial itop the invasion of the enemy md help to bring about peace be 'ore another Christmas arrives. He spent three days at _ tin 'Limbless School" at Weybridge Sere he found numbers oi mei -epairing. motor cycles and carsnen minus an arm or a leg—mer lent there to learn the business. 1 ,ras a. strange scene to see thesi naimed men riding with a reckess dash, just as confident nan in the full possession of at iris limbs- As despatch rider ,hev would shine. And weu ill happy, singmg and whistlm* vt their work as though noting lad happened to them. x J Barrett speaks of the Novembei logs in London and the cold we lier with snowfalls. Since these letters came to hanc Mrs Barratt has received a cabi ; the efiect that Walter was it he Walton-on-Thames Hospital Ke was not strong when mnsferred to the London G.F.U. md when the Christmas rush was in his strength' was not equal to he strain and he had to give m.