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2. If I ever have to leave you again - God knows what will happen.

Sweetheart, why did they have to separate us, of all people. So many thousands would welcome separation - & so many more thousands out here get along so well without their wives.

The more I think, the more I want to be sent home & feel I should be.

Your A.F.M cable came yesterday to say you had not heard for some time - & I replied today to say I am alright - & telling you about my intentions to be sent home. I do hope it will make some sense to you - I think it will. At first, I intended to leave the A.G. to inform you, not risk baffling you in a cable. But I could not resist it, & feel somehow that I may be doing something to give it a push.

I must tell you a little more about this place, how things go on. But now, I think I will go to an early bed, & write again tomorrow. Today I wanted to write as well as think about our anniversaries; we have so many sad ones, now. If only we could be together. Goodnight darling Barbara. You know I love you more than life, & with all my heart & soul & that I always will do. Dearest darling. x x Harry x x.

Sunday Oct 5th. I was hoping very hard for a letter from you this morning, as I have none for a fortnight, now. But all I received was the B.C.&W. annual report, with which you did not enclose your love or any message. And a missing letter from Vera, of July 8th giving me all the usual Bond & Cotterell gossip.