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Letter from Charles Wyndham Wynne to Alice Katherine Wynne

Trinity College Dublin

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<date>29<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Oct 16</date> 
<salute>Dear Mother</salute>

<note>Now I end this for the present 
<lb/> <sic>I</sic> sorry it didn't go before but: there 
<lb/>were no facilities for letters over there.
<lb/> I have now returned it was delightful
<lb/> getting the post on arrival will write soon. C.W.W.</note>

<p>Your letter which I got on Thursday certainly
<lb/> brought the war nearer to me than anything yet.
<lb/>  Still it's the same for everyone; everyone has got
<lb/> his bit. The first thing that struck me when I got
<lb/> out here was how extraordinarily cheerful and how
<lb/> decent and friendly everyone is. Everyone has a smile
<lb/> no matter what happens. And the minute you 
<lb/> meet anyone it's as if you knew him for years.
<lb/> One always manages a bit of fun&#x2014; Its the people
<lb/> at home it's worst for&#x2014; How they stand it
<lb/> I don't know There's many hard blows have been
<lb/> given and many more will come. One can
<lb/> only trust that all will work for good in the end. And
<lb/> certainly already a lot of good must have been done.
<lb/> The men are wonderful &#x2014; always ready for a joke
<lb/> no matter what happens &#x2014;  It's splendid. The job
<lb/> I'm on now isn't very amusing though I suppose it's
<lb/> nothing to what the chaps have in the front line&#x2014;
<lb/> There's a working party supplied by various batteries to
<lb/> clean up and build a trench on the ridge&#x2014; Each battery
<lb/> in turn provides an Officer for three days&#x2014; I'm on
<lb/> it now and am glad my time finishes tomorrow
<lb/> The mud is awful. This morning it rained steadily
<lb/> till we had to <unclear>chuck</unclear> work. One advantage of the rain 
<lb/> it keeps down the smell. Several dead men
<lb/> have been dug up. Anyway it will be splendid when<pb/>

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Letter from Charles Wyndham Wynne to Alice Katherine Wynne

Trinity College Dublin

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