Lot 23 Letter 24 - 4th of June, 1939

4		June		1939

To: Mrs. E.I.J.Bell

11 Evelyn Court, Cheltenham.

From: Edward Bell

Badajos Barracks, Aldershot.

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BADAJOS BARRACKS
TELE.442. ALDERSHOT.

My Dear Mummy,
I expect you will have had my letter by now. I somehow cannot imagine that Jean will no longer be at home to greet me. Fortunately I have had a lot to do these last few days so I have had to take my mind off it, but I keep on thinking of her and the grand times that we had and I feel very sentimental. However I suppose I will just have to get used to it. She was a grand little pal and most certainly gave her best and I shall always remember her.

I booked your room at the Victoria Hotel as I told you on the telephone.

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We dined our new officers in the night before last and got them horribly drunk, we put 'em all to bed after a bit of trouble, I got busy with ice packs. On Saturday we had a General's parade when General Wyatt, the colonel of the regiment, took the salute. He was also our guest at the regiment dinner. I was selected as his orderly officier and had to exort him on parade, march in front of hom when he inspected the __, excort him back to the saluting ___ and finally ___ him off the square. That same morning I gave a demonstration of a road block to the General. It went off very well, I blocked a parth with wire and had pickets on the banks on either side of the stiff wires _____ situated. Along came a section of carriers, the first want through the wire and blew himself up on a ÿ

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mine, the second shot off to the left went sideways hit a picket and fell sideways into a ditch, so it was all very successful. Nobody in the carrier was hurt but it took us about 4 hours to dig it out. We had to dig the bank away, dam the stream, pull the carrier out, make up the ____ again and ___ the flow of water which had meanwhile risen considerably.

This morning I took Brown and Ventries and we went to see the Church parade at Sandhurst. The Duke of Connaught took the salute and it was all very pleasant. He was a wonderful old man, 90 odd years old but he wouldn't sit down for any salutes, not he, up he stood. I also saw my old servants and had a chat with them. This everning Price and I are going to see Paurett, as we have at last found a spare day. This week is the last week of cry training, soon after that the ______ man arrive and we have got to trin them

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Now I have some bad news for you. Our summer leave is going to be canceled or curtailed to about 5 days or a week, due to the arrival of these men. I am finding out more definitely about it tomorrow so held as far the munute and I will let you know if it is necessary to cancel out hotel reservations. It is a bloated nuisance and I could do with a C_____ at that time. As it is it looks as though it means concentrated training from now till August which in this heat will just about ruin me.

As I told you I had the hub ____ and have got a bill of %EF%BF%BD4.13.4 to pay on her. She is certainly much better for it and so she jolly well ought to be. Had a couple of games of tennis or rotten knock abouts yesterday and the dog before and am just going to have a game now.

I will meet you at Reading if you let me know the train time.

All my love to you,
Teddie

Did you know: The word "inst" was a very commonly used abbreviation for the Latin "instante mense" meaning this month.

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