15th September 1918
Announcement Date: 15/09/1918
“We are back in barracks again after a short camp out at Dogmersfield Park owned by Sir Gerald Mildway who is holding something like 700 acres of land at present but owns about 16,000 acres altogether”
“I haven’t yet received the Cake which you sent me but it may come to hand yet there has been a lot of parcels going astray from here for several months past, and only this last week the driver of the Mail Car was arrested for stealing Soldiers Parcels, he had been suspected for some time it seems and so they watched him closely and found a number of parcels in his house, it appears that there has been laxity on the part of the Postal Dep’t as no check has been taken of the Parcels as they are delivered to the mail man from the train, there is a big list of names of those who have parcels gone astray, posted up but, I don’t see my name amongst them.”
John Hall – Letter 18 – England
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John Hall Collection [Invercargill City Libraries & Archives: Accession ICA01.150]