Near land.
Monday evening.
(5.3.1917)
Dear Mum,
Just a very brief note before we get to shore. We expect to be about noon to-morrow and it will be rather nice to have a stretch. Ver Unfortunately I am on orderly officer from 6.30P.M. to morrow night. I have been most horribly busy to-day & even for the last few days. To day we paid. It was a very hard days work & I feel as if I would like to lie down on the deck & go to sleep. We had to start the pay books, and I had been working for the last two days on ammounts, pay sheets & acquittance rolls besides parades. & when we were finished I gave the padres a hand censoring for two hours. We will have a trying day to-morrow too I expect. Yesterday we were at dinner, up to then the we had had for a fortnight a regular pitch, & suddenly that changed to a roll, most marked. Everyone said at once, we have changed at last. & we from then we have been running at right angles to our former course.
You cant expect much news from me yet I havnt time. Things may get better later on. I will wire tomorrow & also try to write again but I dont know what luck I will have.
Good night at present
Arndell.
(written on board R.M.S. Osterley)
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