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glad to see that people in England seemed more cheerful. Lat night I dreamt that I was in a terrific thunderstorm and woke up to the tune of the French guns roaring away in the distance and the heavy guns of the Germans answering. I wish I could tell you our disposition here but it is impossible, the only thing I should like would be for you to send one "Land + Water" (the latest) when you receive this, as I should like to see what it says about things here. i wish the Germans would realize quickly that they were beaten or that they were going to be as it would finish the war and we could get back for Christmas. I may be sent back to the base when we move as I have strained a tendon in my leg which makes it painful to march but I have carried a tendon in my leg which makes it painful to march but I have carried on with it for three weeks now. I have just had luncheon and am feeling very strong, we do ourselves very well, yesterday we had roast duck and the day before roast chicken. Butter is not a luxury though we have to do without it for a few days sometimes. I should like it very much if you were to post me a tin of Nestles Condensed Milk once a week. Rumour has it that we are to be relieved this evening.
12 Nov.
Here we are still sitting on our chumps doing nothing very much except letting off a few rounds a day, next time you write do give me some news. We have the most awful rumours here of naval disasters - that Yarmouth has been bombarded, that four Cruisers have been sunk and that two Troopers were also sunk with four thousand men. We do not howeve put much confidence in these stories as friend German likes sendind littles stories through our lines. We spend our time here admiring the French. I had the opportunity of watching them advance through my glasses the other day - suddenly there was a burst of shrapnel and I put up my glasses and there under it walking in their red pantaloons and their blue coats as if it were but a pleasant stroll, came the French. Now and again you would see some fall and others carry them back. It all seemed like a little play enacted to pass away a half hour, if they had been running or crawling one might have realized that there was something more than a half hour's performance.
It really is wonderful this war, that a man's mind should be so controlled as to have desired it, one sees a pleasant little cottage, there is a terrific crash - a cloud of smoke and to a skeleton. Then there is a more cheerful side to it, the greatness as well as the awfulness and I think that this war has been such for one finds man turning towards God, more than ever before............
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Letters from 1914/15 Ypres
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1914-10-22
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Jonathan Irwin | europeana19141918:agent/af4ef29c0e747d45fa1c34f4e872c769
Arthur Ramsey Stanley -Clarke | europeana19141918:agent/dbf73f1c3821aec8026e85c9af02d7ef
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Typed copies (54pages) of letters from my grandfather to his parents titled Letters received from the Front,written by Arthur Ramsay Stanley-Clarke, 2nd Lieutenant,1stBattalion,Dorset Regiment, who went to the Front on 22nd October 1914 Letters run till 7th May 1915 when he returned home having been gassed August 1st attached Royal Flying Corps.ReceivedWingsJanuary 1916 & went to the Front 3rd February 191654 typed pages
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glad to see that people in England seemed more cheerful. Lat night I dreamt that I was in a terrific thunderstorm and woke up to the tune of the French guns roaring away in the distance and the heavy guns of the Germans answering. I wish I could tell you our disposition here but it is impossible, the only thing I should like would be for you to send one "Land + Water" (the latest) when you receive this, as I should like to see what it says about things here. i wish the Germans would realize quickly that they were beaten or that they were going to be as it would finish the war and we could get back for Christmas. I may be sent back to the base when we move as I have strained a tendon in my leg which makes it painful to march but I have carried a tendon in my leg which makes it painful to march but I have carried on with it for three weeks now. I have just had luncheon and am feeling very strong, we do ourselves very well, yesterday we had roast duck and the day before roast chicken. Butter is not a luxury though we have to do without it for a few days sometimes. I should like it very much if you were to post me a tin of Nestles Condensed Milk once a week. Rumour has it that we are to be relieved this evening.
12 Nov.
Here we are still sitting on our chumps doing nothing very much except letting off a few rounds a day, next time you write do give me some news. We have the most awful rumours here of naval disasters - that Yarmouth has been bombarded, that four Cruisers have been sunk and that two Troopers were also sunk with four thousand men. We do not howeve put much confidence in these stories as friend German likes sendind littles stories through our lines. We spend our time here admiring the French. I had the opportunity of watching them advance through my glasses the other day - suddenly there was a burst of shrapnel and I put up my glasses and there under it walking in their red pantaloons and their blue coats as if it were but a pleasant stroll, came the French. Now and again you would see some fall and others carry them back. It all seemed like a little play enacted to pass away a half hour, if they had been running or crawling one might have realized that there was something more than a half hour's performance.
It really is wonderful this war, that a man's mind should be so controlled as to have desired it, one sees a pleasant little cottage, there is a terrific crash - a cloud of smoke and to a skeleton. Then there is a more cheerful side to it, the greatness as well as the awfulness and I think that this war has been such for one finds man turning towards God, more than ever before............
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glad to see that people in England seemed more cheerful. Lat night I dreamt that I was in a terrific thunderstorm and woke up to the tune of the French guns roaring away in the distance and the heavy guns of the Germans answering. I wish I could tell you our disposition here but it is impossible, the only thing I should like would be for you to send one "Land + Water" (the latest) when you receive this, as I should like to see what it says about things here. i wish the Germans would realize quickly that they were beaten or that they were going to be as it would finish the war and we could get back for Christmas. I may be sent back to the base when we move as I have strained a tendon in my leg which makes it painful to march but I have carried a tendon in my leg which makes it painful to march but I have carried on with it for three weeks now. I have just had luncheon and am feeling very strong, we do ourselves very well, yesterday we had roast duck and the day before roast chicken. Butter is not a luxury though we have to do without it for a few days sometimes. I should like it very much if you were to post me a tin of Nestles Condensed Milk once a week. Rumour has it that we are to be relieved this evening.
12 Nov.
Here we are still sitting on our chumps doing nothing very much except letting off a few rounds a day, next time you write do give me some news. We have the most awful rumours here of naval disasters - that Yarmouth has been bombarded, that four Cruisers have been sunk and that two Troopers were also sunk with four thousand men. We do not howeve put much confidence in these stories as friend German likes sendind littles stories through our lines. We spend our time here admiring the French. I had the opportunity of watching them advance through my glasses the other day - suddenly there was a burst of shrapnel and I put up my glasses and there under it walking in their red pantaloons and their blue coats as if it were but a pleasant stroll, came the French. Now and again you would see some fall and others carry them back. It all seemed like a little play enacted to pass away a half hour, if they had been running or crawling one might have realized that there was something more than a half hour's performance.
It really is wonderful this war, that a man's mind should be so controlled as to have desired it, one sees a pleasant little cottage, there is a terrific crash - a cloud of smoke and to a skeleton. Then there is a more cheerful side to it, the greatness as well as the awfulness and I think that this war has been such for one finds man turning towards God, more than ever before............
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glad to see that people in England seemed more cheerful. Lat night I dreamt that I was in a terrific thunderstorm and woke up to the tune of the French guns roaring away in the distance and the heavy guns of the Germans answering. I wish I could tell you our disposition here but it is impossible, the only thing I should like would be for you to send one "Land + Water" (the latest) when you receive this, as I should like to see what it says about things here. i wish the Germans would realize quickly that they were beaten or that they were going to be as it would finish the war and we could get back for Christmas. I may be sent back to the base when we move as I have strained a tendon in my leg which makes it painful to march but I have carried a tendon in my leg which makes it painful to march but I have carried on with it for three weeks now. I have just had luncheon and am feeling very strong, we do ourselves very well, yesterday we had roast duck and the day before roast chicken. Butter is not a luxury though we have to do without it for a few days sometimes. I should like it very much if you were to post me a tin of Nestles Condensed Milk once a week. Rumour has it that we are to be relieved this evening. 12 Nov. Here we are still sitting on our chumps doing nothing very much except letting off a few rounds a day, next time you write do give me some news. We have the most awful rumours here of naval disasters - that Yarmouth has been bombarded, that four Cruisers have been sunk and that two Troopers were also sunk with four thousand men. We do not howeve put much confidence in these stories as friend German likes sendind littles stories through our lines. We spend our time here admiring the French. I had the opportunity of watching them advance through my glasses the other day - suddenly there was a burst of shrapnel and I put up my glasses and there under it walking in their red pantaloons and their blue coats as if it were but a pleasant stroll, came the French. Now and again you would see some fall and others carry them back. It all seemed like a little play enacted to pass away a half hour, if they had been running or crawling one might have realized that there was something more than a half hour's performance. It really is wonderful this war, that a man's mind should be so controlled as to have desired it, one sees a pleasant little cottage, there is a terrific crash - a cloud of smoke and to a skeleton. Then there is a more cheerful side to it, the greatness as well as the awfulness and I think that this war has been such for one finds man turning towards God, more than ever before............
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