I sit alone at last, and therefore with you, my dear Siegfried. For which name, as much as for anything in any envelope of your sealing, I give thanks and rejoice.
The 5th have taken over a big Hotel, of which I am Major Domo, which in the vulgar, means Lift Boy. I manage Accommodation, Food, and Service. I boss cooks, housemaids, charwomen, chamber-maids, mess orderlies and – drummers.
There were 80 officers when I came, or 800 grouses daily. . . .
A Depot, A.P.O. S.17, B.E.F. France Sunday, 1 September 1918