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  I thought you might like to have a few lines from one of the Bromley boys, so have written a few lines about this country.   I have travelled a good deal in India during the time I have been…

  I hope that you will be able to find space in your valuable paper for an account of our move from Rawal Pindi to Jubbulpore by the new travelling accommodation.  After being in the  -- Division for some considerable…

    Since leaving Jhansi I have travelled a few hundred miles, and the scenery was simply grand.  It took us four days to go from Jhansi to Nowshera, and we passed through a lot of the big cities on…

    (Writing from Nowshera on 14th April, 1916 he said that they had arrived there the previous Saturday after a long and tiring journey of 900 miles which took three days and three nights).  He adds   But it…

  I am enclosing a photograph of some of the boys of the above regiment (sadly not printed ), who eagerly look forward to the mail day, not only for letters from home, but to have a look at the…

    We have not had so much excitement her as you seem to have had at home with the Zeppelin raids and the measuring of the beams of light from the tradesmen’s half-shut doors across the road;  the boys…

    You will be surprised to hear, no doubt, that I no longer belong to the West Kents.  I have transferred, and now belong to No 1 Mechanical Transport Company.  I joined them at their headquarters at Nowshera, which…

  Taking everything into consideration we had a fairly successful season, although we are fairly certain, if it had not been for slight accidents, illness, &c., which kept some of our best players out of the team.  We should have…