I had been living on cheese and brown bread and cold lamb for two weeks, with no tobacco, and sleeping five hours a night on floors and sofas.

Sometimes the officers and men fought for food, and we never got anything warm to eat except occasionally tinned things which we cooked in my kit.

It was the most satisfactory trip all round I ever had.

I have been twenty years trying to be in a battle and it will be twenty years more before I will want to be in another.
On the eighteenth I start for London, stopping one day in Paris to see the Clarks and Eustises.

It is going to be bigger than the Coronation for crowds, and Mother need not worry, I shall keep out of it.