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"One sees some ghastly sights. Wounded have to be brought up through woods, awful road, or rather track, they come in 2 wheel carts drawn by mules or horses. Some placed on backs of mules, others carried by men."
France
May 7th, 1915 evg. My Dear Mother … We have been very busy lately, going night & day. Pulled out of bed at midnight & off up over the pass, have to put out lights on top & get down in dark, couple of nights ago it was pitch dark, car in front of us ran into a wagon & pair which partly shied, man driving, a soldier, killed, one horse fell over side of road down into pine woods, other bolted down road. We came on it all just after. Another car ran into something & had to be left there, just by part of road which Germans often shell, however they got it down next morng. Going all yesterday & some cars were out again last night. A pretty big fight & a lot killed & wounded. One sees some ghastly sights. Wounded have to be brought up through woods, awful road, or rather track, they come in 2 wheel carts drawn by mules or horses. Some places on backs of mules, others carried by men. One gets wonderful view of positions & pass our batteries some on road & they seem to take a delight in firing just when they hear us coming round the corner on to them & make one jump a bit. Yesterday aft. noon we were down there waiting for wounded & 2 of the fellows prowling round a battery close by had a shell burst within 50 yards of them in the trees which they found unpleasantly close & one had a bad headache all the evening. They make such a noise in hilly country & bursting in the trees … Some of our men left today after completing their 3 months, very sorry losing one or two of them, very nice fellows. Five more men have come & arrived for dejeuner this morng. & some new chauffeurs. New lot seem nice, so I trust we shall all get along well. An extract from Arthur's Letter January 1917:
"My New Year's Eve night & New Year's morning I spent in a dugout lying on a stretcher on floor with a wounded man on one over me, rats playing about all over, shells bursting all round & shaking the place, so it was not much to boast of; sort of shelling out the old year & in the new." |
Frank Hargreaves goes off with the others home today but tells me he is returning about 1st June & of course leaves his car & man here. My room companion stays I’m glad to say. We have aft.noon tea in our room now occasionally, he brought out spirit lamps & tea & I’ve brought cups & teapot & we both have biscuits, so it is very snug …
Saturday May 8th, 1915 8-30 a.m. I finish this this morng. Post goes 10-30. I was called up at 2 a.m. this morng. & got back soon after 4 a.m. with 8 wounded. They are fighting away taking & retaking a hill. 5 cars were called out at 2 a.m. & more now. I was up over pass yesterday aft.noon & guns were going hard. Coming down a man died in ambulance en route, first time it has happened to me, tho’ sometimes they have been very near it when reaching hospital. Rather unpleasant for other wounded in car. Coming down yesterday evg. there was one of the finest sunsets I think I’ve seen, very red & red clouds, so suggestive of these times & the view up along a glorious little valley below us with chalets & green everywhere & this wonderful sunset, all so lovely & then one remembered again ones load & a wretched man dying in the car … A new regiment of Chasseurs arrived here 3 days ago & seemingly with a band, for last 2 mornings (they are at it now) they come down to lake shore close to our gates & practice. Perhaps they will remain & play here during summer. A very good thing to cheer up the poor fellows back from trenches for a rest. Do try & get some copies of the Morning Post with article about “With French Army in the Vosges” of end March or first 2 or 3 days of April. Must be off to clean my car. Turned in this morning about 4-30 & slept till 7. Just had Petit dejeuner. A |
"Two or three other Taubes were flying about up there trying to locate French batteries; they shelled them & fired with mitrailleuses at them, quite exciting to watch & the puffs of white smoke in the clear air as the shells burst, however as usual none were hit."
News of the Quintinshill rail disaster in England ...
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France
May 24th, 1915
My Dear Mother
Yr. P.c. of May 19th to hand this mrng. & yesterday I got 2 reports of J.C. Club & a Rubber Co. you sent me on …
So Italy has started, the news is stuck up on Post Office this morning. Of course these last few days it was a certainty, so it may help finish war sooner if they are any good, they have prepared for a long time, so are quite ready, not like France last August. I wonder if Feo will be called up. If you think Evie & Ita had better come over to you, I will contribute £15 & I daresay Will might do same now that he is so affluent. I’m not at all so, still if you’d like to have them & she wants to come, you can count on me for £15 towards her trip …
Enclosed is from local Gerardmer paper & gives account of result of bomb dropping here Saturday morning. It was about 200 yards from here, one of our ambulances & one Commandant rushed off & took the poor woman to hospital close by but she died soon after. They found her terribly wounded & in corner of room her small child of 4 crying, very sad.
I was called out at 5 a.m. that morning to go up over the Pass & as we got to the top at 6 a glorious cloudless morning the sentries saw the Taube come over & rushed to telephone down here to look out. Two or three other Taubes were flying about up there trying to locate French batteries; they shelled them & fired with mitrailleuses at them, quite exciting to watch & the puffs of white smoke in the clear air as the shells burst, however as usual none were hit.
We have had the narrowest escape this morning that I suppose any of us want to experience, about 2 seconds, I suppose, saved us, I mean in time & one feels Providence must have looked after us. At 5.15 a.m a terrific report just in front of Villa, 30 ft from our windows woke us, or me, up, one or two were awake, then another almost immediately after this just 40 ft. behind the house, then 2 more further on. Of course we all jumped up. It was a Taube of course. Luckily the bomb fell on grass plot in front, it was soft & so it sunk in a bit, if it had been on road just beyond a few feet it would have been worse, on anything hard it is so much worse. It threw earth up into my room & into my bath which was by open window.
A stone right on to our Commandant’s bed other side of landing & where Lord C Beresford had been sleeping two previous nights. All our windows were wide open or they’d have been smashed, some closed ones were all glass in Gardeners house at back, was smashed & his children had a narrow shave; I’ve just been up to see them; she says she’ll stay in a cellar in future.
If the first bomb had been thrown I suppose 2 seconds, at the outside, later, most of us would be no more, as it would have come down through the roof & smashed the whole house & if actual parts of bomb did not get us, bricks & beams would have most likely. They go through these roofs & houses from roof to to ground floor. We are wondering if they heard Lord C Beresford was here & were trying for him, as only last week I saw he made a speech in England advocating the hanging of the Kaiser & his entourage after a trial for murder.
It was in French papers about his coming here & of course the Germans see them. He came on Friday for dejeuner & left yesterday at 9 a.m. It was a very good shot for this house. It is in trees too. Of course spies tell them where we are & our personnel have been asses enough to hang out flag (Red Cross & a white flag with S.S.A. No.3 on them) & stuck them on balcony; it seems rather asking for it.
Yesterday morng. at 9 o’clock, or rather 8-30 Lord C.B. received us on the Square close here, we had all the cars drawn up & he inspected them & then called us together in centre of square & made a speech, very nice & the Commandant of Automobiles in the Vosges made a speech in French of course & said nice things. Lord Charles understands French I fancy, but does not speak it. He seemed fit & well & delighted with his stay here.
They took him sight seeing round about & up to top of Pass but they would not let him go down the other side, rather a responsibility & I suppose they did not think it quite safe. Last week they bombarded the top just where old frontier was & where one starts going down & knocked buildings about & made a fearful mess.
In a French paper on Sat. it said that he might be put at Admiralty instead of Winston Churchill, I showed this to him & he was evidently much interested but said they had not offered it to him yet!
What an awful accident we read of in papers in papers this morng. close to Carlisle, worst for very many years poor unfortunate soldiers & people, surly former might have thought themselves safe in England. A sleeping car & its occupants seem to have been all burned.
Of course lots of people, soldiers & women came along this morning to view the bomb holes & see excitement. I went back to bed & my friend too, no use sitting up & looking at it & thinking what might have been …
It has been quiet last few days along front line, but I hear the guns again this morning. I must confess we should all feel VERY VERY grateful to Providence, it was certainly a near thing. Bomb at back smashed branches & made huge hole.
Best love
Yr. Affect. Son
Arthur
May 24th, 1915
My Dear Mother
Yr. P.c. of May 19th to hand this mrng. & yesterday I got 2 reports of J.C. Club & a Rubber Co. you sent me on …
So Italy has started, the news is stuck up on Post Office this morning. Of course these last few days it was a certainty, so it may help finish war sooner if they are any good, they have prepared for a long time, so are quite ready, not like France last August. I wonder if Feo will be called up. If you think Evie & Ita had better come over to you, I will contribute £15 & I daresay Will might do same now that he is so affluent. I’m not at all so, still if you’d like to have them & she wants to come, you can count on me for £15 towards her trip …
Enclosed is from local Gerardmer paper & gives account of result of bomb dropping here Saturday morning. It was about 200 yards from here, one of our ambulances & one Commandant rushed off & took the poor woman to hospital close by but she died soon after. They found her terribly wounded & in corner of room her small child of 4 crying, very sad.
I was called out at 5 a.m. that morning to go up over the Pass & as we got to the top at 6 a glorious cloudless morning the sentries saw the Taube come over & rushed to telephone down here to look out. Two or three other Taubes were flying about up there trying to locate French batteries; they shelled them & fired with mitrailleuses at them, quite exciting to watch & the puffs of white smoke in the clear air as the shells burst, however as usual none were hit.
We have had the narrowest escape this morning that I suppose any of us want to experience, about 2 seconds, I suppose, saved us, I mean in time & one feels Providence must have looked after us. At 5.15 a.m a terrific report just in front of Villa, 30 ft from our windows woke us, or me, up, one or two were awake, then another almost immediately after this just 40 ft. behind the house, then 2 more further on. Of course we all jumped up. It was a Taube of course. Luckily the bomb fell on grass plot in front, it was soft & so it sunk in a bit, if it had been on road just beyond a few feet it would have been worse, on anything hard it is so much worse. It threw earth up into my room & into my bath which was by open window.
A stone right on to our Commandant’s bed other side of landing & where Lord C Beresford had been sleeping two previous nights. All our windows were wide open or they’d have been smashed, some closed ones were all glass in Gardeners house at back, was smashed & his children had a narrow shave; I’ve just been up to see them; she says she’ll stay in a cellar in future.
If the first bomb had been thrown I suppose 2 seconds, at the outside, later, most of us would be no more, as it would have come down through the roof & smashed the whole house & if actual parts of bomb did not get us, bricks & beams would have most likely. They go through these roofs & houses from roof to to ground floor. We are wondering if they heard Lord C Beresford was here & were trying for him, as only last week I saw he made a speech in England advocating the hanging of the Kaiser & his entourage after a trial for murder.
It was in French papers about his coming here & of course the Germans see them. He came on Friday for dejeuner & left yesterday at 9 a.m. It was a very good shot for this house. It is in trees too. Of course spies tell them where we are & our personnel have been asses enough to hang out flag (Red Cross & a white flag with S.S.A. No.3 on them) & stuck them on balcony; it seems rather asking for it.
Yesterday morng. at 9 o’clock, or rather 8-30 Lord C.B. received us on the Square close here, we had all the cars drawn up & he inspected them & then called us together in centre of square & made a speech, very nice & the Commandant of Automobiles in the Vosges made a speech in French of course & said nice things. Lord Charles understands French I fancy, but does not speak it. He seemed fit & well & delighted with his stay here.
They took him sight seeing round about & up to top of Pass but they would not let him go down the other side, rather a responsibility & I suppose they did not think it quite safe. Last week they bombarded the top just where old frontier was & where one starts going down & knocked buildings about & made a fearful mess.
In a French paper on Sat. it said that he might be put at Admiralty instead of Winston Churchill, I showed this to him & he was evidently much interested but said they had not offered it to him yet!
What an awful accident we read of in papers in papers this morng. close to Carlisle, worst for very many years poor unfortunate soldiers & people, surly former might have thought themselves safe in England. A sleeping car & its occupants seem to have been all burned.
Of course lots of people, soldiers & women came along this morning to view the bomb holes & see excitement. I went back to bed & my friend too, no use sitting up & looking at it & thinking what might have been …
It has been quiet last few days along front line, but I hear the guns again this morning. I must confess we should all feel VERY VERY grateful to Providence, it was certainly a near thing. Bomb at back smashed branches & made huge hole.
Best love
Yr. Affect. Son
Arthur
"French were pouring shells on to the hill about a mile away across the valley; we were quite alone, full view of German trenches not 1000 yds on a low hill below us, but they never tried to shoot our way."
A close shave for Arthur, the story of the man and his dog, a unique visit to the front line trenches, Arthur is mistaken for a spy ...
May 29th, 1915
My Dear Mother
Yrs. of 23rd & p.c. of 22nd latter to hand. I got my hat this morning that ???? sent me & which you paid her for or directly to A & N Stores, it is just what I wanted & fits well. I got part of Times today which you sent & has a lot of interest about colonies. I think our letters home are held here or somewhere for 4 days before being sent, a strange & maddening regulation & so useless, the idea being that any news should be stale & of no use! I did hear something about their going to do it …
I suppose Evie will want to stay in Rome & perhaps help nurse wounded or something; I don’t know if he is called out, probably will be to do something, stretcher bearer or hospital work, must be a lot of jobs to be done with all these troops called out.
…when I shall very likely be in Australia , if nothing unforeseen happens.
The unforeseen nearly happened a couple of days ago when I was spending couple of days with a friend in 63 Chasseurs prowling about during a battle & a shell burst where we had both been standing a minute before. We had just crossed an open space of about 150 yards coming from a battery that was firing as hard as it could & had stopped to look at some large shell holes made in this open space. We had just got into edge of wood when a shell whistled through the top of trees over our heads & burst 50 mtrs from us just where we had been.
My friend suggested getting behind a tree & looking at a couple more come, I can’t say one feels keen about it, however we did & 2 more came over & burst about same place, awful crash, earth & shell & mess thrown about. My baptism of fire. They told us at the battery that the Germans would soon shell them or try to in all probability & they did & not bad shots either for the battery. Just before that we had walked up over a hill with a wonderful view of fighting & shells coming over our heads all the time. Scenery was lovely & heavenly day & fighting seemed out of place.
We could see Rhine Valley & mountains of Black Forest & up the valley of Colmar with pretty villages about. We had fine view of a fight for a hill & looking on behind a wall, no trees there & I had good glasses. French were pouring shells on to the hill about a mile away across the valley; we were quite alone, full view of German trenches not 1000 yds on a low hill below us, but they never tried to shoot our way.
My friend is a very nice fellow, but rather casual & is 48, but his eldest son in war, suffers from a slight heart so cannot serve or is he in any way compelled to, but likes the excitement & lives with the 63 rgt. & has a delightful dog that wears a red cross band around him, & helps his master to look for wounded in the woods. I brought him down here twice from the Pass, once with the dog, which is how I made his acquaintance. He is, or was, Maine of Cognac (Charente) seems very well off & much liked & has a pass which enables him to go any where he likes in the French lines.
It was the most interesting 36 hrs. I ever had & as he said to me, a lot of men would have given him a lot of money to have seen all I did, as it just happened I came in for a lot more fighting & artillery work than there had been for many weeks. His regiment was in the front trenches of the Reichsakerkopf, a famous hill where they have been fighting for months off & on & all trees shot away & are bare poles, so he took me all through the trenches, miles of them, hot work on a warm day. Front trenches were 25 or 30 yards from the Germans, it seemed so extraordinary, at one point I went to the front line German trench was only yards off, it is hard to grasp unless one sees it.
They were throwing grenades & bombs from their trenches into ours & threw 3 while I was there, luckily they burst 10 to 15 yds. behind front trench where we were. French are within 40 yards of the top of the hill. The trenches are a network. One has to dip ones head a bit & it is awkward the Germans being above one.
The men seemed rather surprised to see us, officers were all very nice. Dead bodies lay 3 to 4 yards in front of French trenches of the first line, men killed some months ago & covered over with snow & frozen; now snow has gone they are decomposing & it is very smelly. Of course they can’t get at them to bury them ‘tho one sees them so close; they talk of trying to fit some sort of squirt [?] & throw lime or some mixture over them through the loopholes at night. It is a most uncomfortable existence in the trenches I should imagine & bombs & things thrown at you all the time. We did the trenches in aft.noon & had a fine view of the fight on another hill in morning.
We lunched at mess of the Drs of the 63, 5 of us & out in the open air in a wood, lovely spot. The shells kept on whistling over & bursting 200 yards off, but they did not seem to mind a bit & in no way interfered with their appetite. We visited various batteries and watched them firing. About 5 p.m. it slackened off & we wandered along just inside edge of wood on this big hill mostly wooded & a pretty little German village just below us, we sat down and looked at it though glasses & saw people strolling about, no damage done to it as far as I could see, pretty cottages & fruit trees in bloom & all this inferno going on all around. I slept in a dug out with 2 Drs & an Artillery Officer. About 2 a.m. the guns started, the Germans making a counter attack & from 2-30 to 3 a.m. the place shook with artillery fire, I never heard anything like it. Soon after 3 it started to rain & all seemed to end.
Yest. morng it poured & there was a thick fog & all quiet. My friend accompanied me half way back to the Pass through the woods, then I came on above & was evidently taken for a spy & had rather amusing experience. Gendarmes were in reach of me, they had been telephoned from somewhere that I had been seen as I was walking up the road near Pass, I met 2 of them & asked me who I was & where I was going & so on. I told them my story & showed them my passport they looked at my photo on it & at me, said it was surly me, said nice things about the Anglais & apologised, but very rightly said I should have had a pass to let me go into the lines.
They asked me to tell any other Gendarmes I met not to bother & to go back to their quarters. At the top of Pass where there are troops & buildings I saw the sentry coming towards me, so I went towards him & asked him where I could find some déjeuner, he seemed so taken aback then he showed me where & never asked me who or what I was. I went to a little military food place where men on duty passing through can get a meal, 5 or 6 soldiers were in there; they gave me quite a good little feed, I had walked miles & in mostly pouring rain.
While I was eating another man came in & said he’d heard they were after a spy & had just got one! Very amusing as of course I knew I was the supposed spy, but said nothing. Then the Commandment of the place came over to see me, I knew why, but he pretended it was just a chance look in & talked a little with me just to satisfy himself about me. I was waiting then for one of our cars to pass to bring me down & one eventually came. It was all a most interesting experience & not an easy one to fit, in fact almost impossible; great luck. None of our staff officers have heard anything like it & are rather curious. I never asked for it, but got it. Sometimes the way.
Our Commandant Tarbutt has left & Frank Hargreaves has just arrived & is to take his place: FH has been home for 18 days leave: I’ve not seen him yet.
Been pouring all morng. But finer now. It CAN rain here when it likes. A bomb or bombs dropped in barracks here 3 mornings ago blew up & destroyed 5 or 6 french motor lorries & cars.
Best love
Yr. affect. Son
Arthur
My Dear Mother
Yrs. of 23rd & p.c. of 22nd latter to hand. I got my hat this morning that ???? sent me & which you paid her for or directly to A & N Stores, it is just what I wanted & fits well. I got part of Times today which you sent & has a lot of interest about colonies. I think our letters home are held here or somewhere for 4 days before being sent, a strange & maddening regulation & so useless, the idea being that any news should be stale & of no use! I did hear something about their going to do it …
I suppose Evie will want to stay in Rome & perhaps help nurse wounded or something; I don’t know if he is called out, probably will be to do something, stretcher bearer or hospital work, must be a lot of jobs to be done with all these troops called out.
…when I shall very likely be in Australia , if nothing unforeseen happens.
The unforeseen nearly happened a couple of days ago when I was spending couple of days with a friend in 63 Chasseurs prowling about during a battle & a shell burst where we had both been standing a minute before. We had just crossed an open space of about 150 yards coming from a battery that was firing as hard as it could & had stopped to look at some large shell holes made in this open space. We had just got into edge of wood when a shell whistled through the top of trees over our heads & burst 50 mtrs from us just where we had been.
My friend suggested getting behind a tree & looking at a couple more come, I can’t say one feels keen about it, however we did & 2 more came over & burst about same place, awful crash, earth & shell & mess thrown about. My baptism of fire. They told us at the battery that the Germans would soon shell them or try to in all probability & they did & not bad shots either for the battery. Just before that we had walked up over a hill with a wonderful view of fighting & shells coming over our heads all the time. Scenery was lovely & heavenly day & fighting seemed out of place.
We could see Rhine Valley & mountains of Black Forest & up the valley of Colmar with pretty villages about. We had fine view of a fight for a hill & looking on behind a wall, no trees there & I had good glasses. French were pouring shells on to the hill about a mile away across the valley; we were quite alone, full view of German trenches not 1000 yds on a low hill below us, but they never tried to shoot our way.
My friend is a very nice fellow, but rather casual & is 48, but his eldest son in war, suffers from a slight heart so cannot serve or is he in any way compelled to, but likes the excitement & lives with the 63 rgt. & has a delightful dog that wears a red cross band around him, & helps his master to look for wounded in the woods. I brought him down here twice from the Pass, once with the dog, which is how I made his acquaintance. He is, or was, Maine of Cognac (Charente) seems very well off & much liked & has a pass which enables him to go any where he likes in the French lines.
It was the most interesting 36 hrs. I ever had & as he said to me, a lot of men would have given him a lot of money to have seen all I did, as it just happened I came in for a lot more fighting & artillery work than there had been for many weeks. His regiment was in the front trenches of the Reichsakerkopf, a famous hill where they have been fighting for months off & on & all trees shot away & are bare poles, so he took me all through the trenches, miles of them, hot work on a warm day. Front trenches were 25 or 30 yards from the Germans, it seemed so extraordinary, at one point I went to the front line German trench was only yards off, it is hard to grasp unless one sees it.
They were throwing grenades & bombs from their trenches into ours & threw 3 while I was there, luckily they burst 10 to 15 yds. behind front trench where we were. French are within 40 yards of the top of the hill. The trenches are a network. One has to dip ones head a bit & it is awkward the Germans being above one.
The men seemed rather surprised to see us, officers were all very nice. Dead bodies lay 3 to 4 yards in front of French trenches of the first line, men killed some months ago & covered over with snow & frozen; now snow has gone they are decomposing & it is very smelly. Of course they can’t get at them to bury them ‘tho one sees them so close; they talk of trying to fit some sort of squirt [?] & throw lime or some mixture over them through the loopholes at night. It is a most uncomfortable existence in the trenches I should imagine & bombs & things thrown at you all the time. We did the trenches in aft.noon & had a fine view of the fight on another hill in morning.
We lunched at mess of the Drs of the 63, 5 of us & out in the open air in a wood, lovely spot. The shells kept on whistling over & bursting 200 yards off, but they did not seem to mind a bit & in no way interfered with their appetite. We visited various batteries and watched them firing. About 5 p.m. it slackened off & we wandered along just inside edge of wood on this big hill mostly wooded & a pretty little German village just below us, we sat down and looked at it though glasses & saw people strolling about, no damage done to it as far as I could see, pretty cottages & fruit trees in bloom & all this inferno going on all around. I slept in a dug out with 2 Drs & an Artillery Officer. About 2 a.m. the guns started, the Germans making a counter attack & from 2-30 to 3 a.m. the place shook with artillery fire, I never heard anything like it. Soon after 3 it started to rain & all seemed to end.
Yest. morng it poured & there was a thick fog & all quiet. My friend accompanied me half way back to the Pass through the woods, then I came on above & was evidently taken for a spy & had rather amusing experience. Gendarmes were in reach of me, they had been telephoned from somewhere that I had been seen as I was walking up the road near Pass, I met 2 of them & asked me who I was & where I was going & so on. I told them my story & showed them my passport they looked at my photo on it & at me, said it was surly me, said nice things about the Anglais & apologised, but very rightly said I should have had a pass to let me go into the lines.
They asked me to tell any other Gendarmes I met not to bother & to go back to their quarters. At the top of Pass where there are troops & buildings I saw the sentry coming towards me, so I went towards him & asked him where I could find some déjeuner, he seemed so taken aback then he showed me where & never asked me who or what I was. I went to a little military food place where men on duty passing through can get a meal, 5 or 6 soldiers were in there; they gave me quite a good little feed, I had walked miles & in mostly pouring rain.
While I was eating another man came in & said he’d heard they were after a spy & had just got one! Very amusing as of course I knew I was the supposed spy, but said nothing. Then the Commandment of the place came over to see me, I knew why, but he pretended it was just a chance look in & talked a little with me just to satisfy himself about me. I was waiting then for one of our cars to pass to bring me down & one eventually came. It was all a most interesting experience & not an easy one to fit, in fact almost impossible; great luck. None of our staff officers have heard anything like it & are rather curious. I never asked for it, but got it. Sometimes the way.
Our Commandant Tarbutt has left & Frank Hargreaves has just arrived & is to take his place: FH has been home for 18 days leave: I’ve not seen him yet.
Been pouring all morng. But finer now. It CAN rain here when it likes. A bomb or bombs dropped in barracks here 3 mornings ago blew up & destroyed 5 or 6 french motor lorries & cars.
Best love
Yr. affect. Son
Arthur
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