Henry Thomas Norton - Letters

Contains photocopied material. Typed transcript (photocopy) of a letter from Harry Norton, France, to his wife, dated 7 May 1916.

The following extracts are taken from pages 70 to 72:

[Page 70]

"Just fancy after ten months training

[Page 71]

in a few hours I will be able to do my bit. I am very excited and looking forward to the moment, & order to charge. What a glorious time we will have making the fiends run. We will show them what we can do, you may be sure ... Brute strength & perseverance is going to carry me through this job ... It seems like heaven to think of a soft bed, white sheets & blankets, so clean & sweet and just fancy a table with a white cloth & cups & saucers and a tea pot, & best of all to have you, Dear old Girl fussing round.

[Page 72]

We will win for sure, and I will win my star on my shoulder too ... One can see the humour in most things. A month ago we were pestered with flies & sand. Now we cannot lie down on the grass for frogs. It is horrible to sit down on a frog & hear it go squash, and then we have to get a stick & scrape the remains off, but we are getting used to it."