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1st Ba. A.P.W.O. Yorkshire Regt.
Upper Topa
Morree??
Oct 4th 1916.
My dear Mother & Father
As I am feeling a ?? "fed up & far from??
home" I can't do better than answer your letters. There
a thence of these - your two months ?? from your ???
Last week I said I was cabling to say
continue address Rawal Pindi: Well I saved my 3
chips because the Husain Abdul Scheme is "on"
again and it is settled that we are going there. So
it is a case now of "Continue address Husain Abdul".
My present address may surprise you.
I am having 10 days with the Yorkshire Regiment and
a hours Gen ???. The Yorkshires are one of the
few Regular Battalion's still in India. I am not
impressed with the Regular officers they have remaining.
They are an unsociable crowd. The four K.A. people
they have had sent to them from England are very much
better, though they seem to keep rather to themselves.
There is also a Middlesex fellow here who has only
been with them 10 days, but I gather that he feels
much the same on the subject as I do. Still
perhaps it is hardly fair to form judgements like this
after only one day, but I am usually pretty
accurate with my first impressions of men.