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261247 Gnr. R. Alexander
R.F.A. Attached
Tank Group H.Q.
British Rhine Army
Germany

25/7/19

Dear Sir,

Just a few lines to let you know I am still enjoying the best of health & having a good time here at present, I intended writing to you sooner but since I came back off leave I have had quite a lot of addresses, that is the reason I did not write. I had only been a week back to Candas when we shifted from there & kept going here & there until about the beginning of June we came up to Germany to the Artillery Reinforcement Camp & having no room in the batteries for gunners, they attached us to the Tank Corps. I have been posted to Head Quarters as an officer's batman, so I expect they will transfer me to the Tank Corps later, it won't make much difference, although it is rather late now to be transferred. I have never been near a Tank yet & don't expect I ever shall be.

We are at a little villiage³⁰ called Ligneuville at present, it is a famous summer resort in peace time for the German nobility and a few cottages & four big hotels form practically the whole villiage³¹ , trout is in abundance & our officers spend most of their time fishing, it is a beautiful place indeed & about 2,000 feet above sea-level.

We intend shifting into Duren next week, it is a large town & about an hour's run in the car from Cologne. Winter seems to be coming fast so I expect that is why we are going further down.

I have not much more to say just at present, kindly remember me to Miss Miller³² , Mr Rowan³³ & Mr Gourley³⁴ . Hoping this finds you all in the pink, as I could not feel better.

I am Dear Sir,
Yours respectfully,
R.J. Alexander