Letter to Mother - TN Wilmot
Saturday 04 July 2015
[gap presumably while he travels home -- none from Sandhurst it seems!]July 4th 19152nd Bn Worc Regt 5th Bde 2 Division BEF FranceMy dear motherI arrived here this morning after a terrible journey which took me some 21/2 days altogether. I spend one day in Rouen on the way up as we got there early in the morning and did not leave till the evening. It took a lot of fighting to get into the train at Rouen but managed to do it in the end.We are going to have our turn in the trenches, so I did not come up at a very waiting time.I was very lucky in finding a man with nothing to do and a car when detraining and I went quite a motor tour with him to try and find the battalion. We got under rather a hot place and were turned back to go another way. However we got there in the end after a morning's tour in the car.J. D. Wilmot was killed by a sniper the other day and was buried today. He came out here the same time that I did -- he was an awfully nice chap. I have come up here to take his place.There is absolutely no news until we have done something so I'll chuck off this as we are starting soon.Your loving son Tom