The following letter has been received by Mr. Henry Jones, 46, Wernoleu Road, Hopkinstown, from his son, Private T. W. Jones, 10th Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who is in the General Hospital, Bristol: —
“Just a few lines to let you know that I am back again in England with a small shell wound in the head, and I am getting on fine. The wound is healing up all right.
We went into the trenches on New Year’s Eve, and I was wounded last Sunday morning, about nine o’clock, just after breakfast, and I thank God that I am here to ell the tale, as the enemy started to bombard our support trenches, and the first shell that exploded killed two men and wounded four of us.
We were nearly all together, so you can see that I have had a narrow escape. I first had my wound dressed in the trenches, then I walked down to the battalion dressing station; we had to stay there all day Sunday till night for the R. A. M. C. to take us away in the Red Cross motor-car on stretchers to the wounded clearing station.
We got there about six o’clock Sunday night. Monday afternoon we were sent down to the hospital at the Base in Boulogne in a Red Cross train, staying there until Wednesday afternoon, when we were brought over to England on the hospital ship, ‘St George,’ to Southampton, then in a Red Cross train to Bristol.
Try and send me some cigarettes, stamps, and writing paper, and I shall be pleased if you will put a few shillings in with the cigarettes.”
