"My first week," he adds, "was spent, along with a lot ot'other junior officers, in the school of instruction, and we learnt the Morse code, menage procedure, workings of a telephone, and many other things that the ordinary signalman has to know. Actual laying of cable came in too, and in blazing hot weather we sweated away. digging holes in the ground, Covering cable with- earth, erecting pole crossings, and spewing cable from the mechanical cable layer.
"We also went out with short wave wireless sets: and chatted away to each other while on the move, which Was great fun, and we passed some pretty wonderful messages to and fro across the air, and we hope that none were picked up by a 'Protection of Public Morals' officer! And so the first week slipped by all too quickly mand at the week-end we had a sports meeting at which guests were invited."
The letter continues, ".....we have spent this week with our companies, and on Wednesday and Thursday.we went about twenty miles out of camp On a scheme, spending a glorious moonlight night in a small "bivvy" On a village green beside a real old pub, who fixed us up with breakfast next morning. The scheme was quite a pukka one, with aeroplanes hovering about dropping messages and taking photos of positions. Our communications worked according to plan and we thoroughly enjoyed the outing" And so the letter ends,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.