Personal War Diary Entry: August 13th 1916

Went to SWB parade service 10am. Corps commander gave us a very earnest sermon , and gave us to understand that all the divns in the Corps were as rotten as could be. Bobby Nickalls dined and we had a rubber of bridge. The King will see one of our battns tomorrow, along the road near Poperinghe, and all brigadiers are to go and shake hands with him.

Letter (re-discovered, out of sequence): to Mother - July 17th 1916

My dear Mother

Gwynne, bishop of Khartoum, an old friend of mine , was here today conducting the morning service;  we had a special prayer for the dead and another for all our people at home asking that it should be made as easy as possible for them to bear their grief. You mustn’t let Kitty worry about it, as it is only one in a million who succumb to an operation of that kind. Will you tell Dolly that I should like some small thing of Raymond’s that he used to carry about him or always used, as a keepsake. 

I have a very fair chance of getting back on leave about the 7^th or 8^th of August, but of course leave just now is very uncertain.

Keep as cheerful as you can and go away with Father for a holiday somewhere for a fortnight. I’m sure it will do you both good.

Will write again when we get settled down behind

Your loving son

Cuthbert