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Date: July 7th 1918
To
Mother
From
Pte. Geof Piere
Letter

Witley Camp
July 7th, 1918
Dear Mrs Weeks,
Undoubtedly you will be very surprised to know who is writing to you or even that I have been fortunate enough to have got your address. Just how I did is rather a long story; but to congest it to a few words, I will try to make it plain to you.
While in the Guildford on the 1st of July I was stopped by Ludlow, whom I didn't know. He asked me if I answered to the name of so * so; to which I said I did. But did not know him in uniform. When he told me I was never so surprised in my life. He is actually head & shoulders over me. AS for looks I have never seen the boy looking better. Little did I ever think that he was away over here, although I knew he had joined the Army. You know, perhaps full well, that he has become a wireless operator, & may I permit to put your mind at rest, that if he gets the job which I feel sure he will, when he crosses to France he should be in a fair way to promotion, to say nothing of his safety. I do trust Mrs Weeks, for your sake, that he will be taken great care of while he is absent from you. I trust that you are in the best of health & enjoying things as much as possible in the US.
Ludlow was telling me that he understood Dave Daniel had been called up, & also that he had taken unto himself a wife. I wonder how she will like his leaving home. Had he joined the same time as I did he would have been a commissioned officer [?] a man with a senior rank; but no! he didn't therefore he must come as a private as I did. Fundamentally I am still a private , with no chance of raising, owing to trouble contracted while in the Flying Corps. I came to England to tame my con & flying license in this branch of the service, but was turned down.
I doubt from all accounts & I'm afraid to [?] if I shall know my way around Truro, Apparently it has changed considerably since I left. How the time flies.
Well Mrs. Weeks U must close with all good wishes for your happiness & speedy return of your son. Please remember me very kindly to Miss Weeks & anybody else who claims to have known such an individual as
Geof Piere
111417 Pte Geof Piere
A Company
3rd Can Res. Battn
Witley Camp
Surrey, Eng

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