Victoria to Vimy The First World War Collections at the University of Victoria Libraries

Destrubé family - letter from Georges to Dear Maurice & Maggie & family, November 5-6, 1915, Tidworth

Page Title:
Letter from Georges to Dear Maurice & Maggie & family, November 5-6, 1915, verso
Date:
1915
Transcript:
[start page] again. We still think of you all a great deal, for excitement & hardship brings one mentally closer to those one loves & emotions of this sort are far more intense under such circumstances than they can ever be in ordinary life. It was a great treat to see Sylvie's dear old mug again & we were so pleased to see her. papa must have been pleased too. I don't think there seemed much change in her. I do hope she finds a berth for [mussing?] soon, hanging around is always so dissatisfying. (I hope we will see you again this week too Syl, & Papa if he can commun(?) come) I have'nt time to write much; thanks Mag, for those 2 letters you sent me lately, direct. I hope all's well with you both & the store & stock. I do hope you can get that money back on that fur. Dispicable cur that would steal money that way! Can't the police get him? It is those sort of a scoundrels that countries could well spare as victims of war instead of the more useful. But scoundrels always thrive. I will to close, with best love to you all, your loving brother Georges I have written this on the floor, lying out flat on my "belly" have not table in our little room: but it's beautifully way in here tonight good for burning. Needless to say I still put in much time thinking & dreaming of our dear home and there + the life I loved.



Description:
Item is a letter written by Georges while at training camp in Tidworth, England in which he expresses his hopes that he may go to the Front in Serbia rather than France.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918; Destrubé family; Destrubé, Georges
Date:
1915-11-05; 1915-11-06
Collection:
Destrubé family fonds
Location(s):
England--Tidworth