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saying that "poor old Desmond's death is a fearful blow to me & I can't realise we shall never see the dear chap again. It's all too ghastly & such a rotten way of being killed;... at Calais one would have thought one's friends were safe. All this hardly tends to cheer me up on my way East!! Claudie & Malcolm Murray are with me & we crossed to Boulogne in a destroyer... & have passed dear old Paris. We should reach Marseilles about 9.00 am & shove off at once... for Alexandria... What a change it will be out there, & a pleasant one in a way tho I cant say I'm looking forward to it a bit really. I do feel the biggest shit on God's Earth deserting the DIV at this time just as you are all going up to Ypres to have a bloody awful time!!... I don't deserve it!! I have had a frightfully busy week in London... I only dined out twice as my family was in London!!... So you see I was'nt v. gay... we made up for a lot that night!! Mrs… Read More