Forges-les-Eaux, August 21St 1917.
“Dear Sir and Friend, — I wrote to you three months ago from Bourges to thank you for sending me and my friend a little pocket Testament, and now your big and lovely parcel has come to me at the Hospital, where I have been for two months.
“I must thank you very, wary much for it, you are too good to send so much to me. I have given all away to the wounded soldiers who are in the Hospital with me. I am enjoying myself very much, because there are two British A vs., and I may go every Sunday to the service. Here there is also a very nice Soldiers’ Home, and I go to it with friends every evening.
It is a rest for my soul, because in the French Army, God is very often put on one side, and when we are speaking for the Lord, we are very much out of favor with the officers. — Your brother in God, R. G.”
“Brigadier, Hospital Temporaire.”