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Post by BereniceUK on Apr 5, 2017 18:34:24 GMT
A WOOLTONIAN IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Bombardier John Fox, of the 2nd Battery Royal Field Artillery, writing home to his mother, Mrs. Fox, of Allerton-road, Woolton, and his daughter, says it is no use relating the hardships and sickness he has gone through, for his mother has been enough upset. He expresses the hope that his daughter will be advised by his mother, and adds that if the boys had taken her advice they would not now be scattered about from one country to another. The battle of Abraham's Crawl, he says, gave him a sore putting up, but he was glad to say that although he was the youngest and most delicate of the lot, he stood it like a brick, and had got promoted. He thanks his mother for her kindliness to his wife and little ones, and for her thought in sending him out letters, and little presents, and promises, if God spares him, to settle down near her, and be a comfort to her in her old days. He wishes to be remembered to all his old school pals, and specially mentions several friends in Woolton.
(St Helens Reporter, 1 March 1901)
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