Letter sent home from the First World War by Owen Ashton of Llawryglyn, 4 August 1917 [page 1 of 4]

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In this letter, Owen is very grateful to his Mother for the parcel she has sent and he asks whether she and his Father will have a holiday this year. He also asks if they have received any coal, and how the little chickens are. He hopes to be home 'when they are ready for use'. He is going to the doctor, as there is 'something breaking out on my face' and he is not feeling 'near right'. Owen believes that his nerves are bad and that he is weak. Marching to his present destination has done him no good, he has had bad legs for days, and does not think he can stand it for very long - 'many of us will not be much good after this lot'. He taxes Lizzie with not having answered the questions in his letters and tells her 'Well Lizzie fach Johnnies [the Germans] is sending his shells over here one drop now in few yards to us'.