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[1916?]
G.H.Q.
Monday, March: 4 [1918]
My dear little one
In spite of appearances we
had a very easy journey. I found [ST - George, a journalist] Mair
& Belloc at the station, & also Bill
Furse & Ralph Glyn. I hear that
Guy Dawnay is to be Deputy Chief of Staff
to Sir D. H. (just under [ST - General Sir Herbert ] Bertie Lawrence,
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If the date is Thursday, it is 1915. March 4 1916 was a Saturday.
I think it's Monday, and 1918. Guy Dawnay didn't reach the Western Front till then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Dawnay_(British_Army_officer)
Ah, I wasn't expecting a 1918 letter to have crept in. But I'm sure you're right.
I think it's Bill Furse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Furse
Here's another candidate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beach_Thomas
It seems to be a party of writers, not serving officers.
Ralph Glyn was a soldier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Glyn,_1st_Baron_Glyn. A lot of writers like Belloc were invited out to the Front because they were writing contemporaneous histories or contributing to newspapers, but I do think Furse and Glyn were serving officers.
Yes, that makes sense - they just met on the train.
I imagine that happened quite often.
First Class must have been full of people who knew each other.
Quite!
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