Handel Davies, the motor expert of Garnant, writes from Somewhere in France to his friends : —
“I am exceedingly sorry I have not written you before this to thank you one and all for the splendid reception you gave me when I was there on leave last August. It was indeed a pleasant surprise, and I think it would repay you a hundred-fold if I could only make you understand the pleasure it gave me then and now to know that those at home have my welfare at heart.
I should like to have thanked you personally, but, as you know, 
that was impossible. Now doubt you remember the few words I spoke there. They are now coming true, viz., ‘that we could get through the German lines, if we only had the shells.' And now we all know it's only too true, and we shall do so again.
I am writing this note, as many, in fact most, of my letters are written, in the car by the roadside. I was quite surprised to understand when I was there how easily the average persons seem to be taking the war at home. They apparently, for some reason or another, do not realise what a tremendous life and death struggle we are now engaged in.
They all seem to think that the Germans are done form and that all our men have to do is to advance with, perhaps, a stiff fight here and there. I am sorry to have to say their opinion is sorry to have to say their opinion is altogether wrong.
The Germans are far from being spent and done with. We shall have to fight all we know to gain ground, and every bit of the way, too, and the sooner the single boys at home will realise it the better. Especially the slackers that have not given in their names or done their duty to their King and country.
But I know there are a tremendous lot of young boys from the Amman Valley who have done their duty and shown to the older boys what they ought to have done. I feel jolly proud of the boys from there, especially the ones younger than myself, who are doing their duty , ‘not like boys, but like men.'
I close with best wishes to all.”
