OSE WWI Transcriptions from the Archives

2 0: C. H. Jenner – 2/5 Hants Regiment, India – Date unknown

Dear Mr Sing, I have been Signaling at Quetta, where I saw a good deal of Seymour [OSE] and also a letter from you to him and was at once smitten with regret for not having written to you for so long; a fellow called Clough (O.S.E.) was also there, he was a day boy just before my time and so we discussed many old friends its awful to think I have left St. Edwards nearly ten years. We have just discovered Eyres [OSE] is in the Somerset L. I. [Light Infantry] out here as a private and we are doing our best to discover where he is as we want him to come to us and accept a commission. I do hope he will. We are going steadily along working quite strenuously. I wonder if we are doomed to stay here till the end of all things. I wish everything would finish. I like India but I don’t think I am meant for a soldier. I mean in peace time. I miss the boys most fearfully but generally here [hear] from one or another of them every mail. I have run across several of their parents out here in India. I won’t write more as I am very busy, I had a long letter from Charlie Gillett [OSE] a fortnight ago. Yours affect. [affectionately]

Charles H. Jenner Poor Bussell. I should like to die like that.

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