Feature Letter of October 15th, 2024
Bell, William Henry
October 15th 1916
Dear mother
We have arrive in camp it is at Shorncliffe. We had a good trip no rough weather at all and the was not many got sick but it was enough to make a dog sick the stuff the fed us or tried to it was rotton meat sea green tea eggs with chicken in them butter with no salt in it maggets in the soup other was it could not be better we had good places to sleep and it was smooth all the way over. no storms at all There was one battle cruiser with three ship show how scared the ar of subs, we were on the boat 10 day and 9 of the we couldn't see land so I gues you'll no we were glad when seen the coast of Irland....