Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 157   Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)

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Unknown letter fragment 1
The volume had several pieces of paper sitting loose at the end-cover.
This is a torn page from a letter, no date at top, may be written in France:
Starts with partial word:
"lly blown off but was making excellent progress and expecting to be sent to Blighty
with the next evacuation when I saw him. One of the others was from Stettler."
[Perhaps relating stories of Canadian patients she'd met.]

"I only hope we shan't have to spend a winter here. Things were bad enough in winter
at Sutton Veny but it would be twice as awful here. ... I guess I can, though
if the beastly war doesn't decide to end before then."
Believe written in 1917, she refers to "signed up until December 9th".


Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare   Scan: 157   Volume 6: May 5, 1916 (Boxmoor) - December 10, 1916 (Sutton Veny)