COU-14

12 May 1915

Dear Mr Coulson,

I congratulate you on receiving your captaincy. In the review last Saturday I tried to make you out, but there were too many marching to distinguish you from any others. It certainly was a fine night and the men looked tip-top.

Your confrere, Captain Simpson⁸⁵ , had a week-end last week, returning to Alnwick on Monday night. He looks first-class and is enjoying the life in the open, as you are, to the utmost. When he came in to see me last Saturday from his forehead down the rest of his face was the colour of mahogany. He expects to be moved on to York in the course of two or three days.

Kind regards from all of us here, as well as Holywood⁸⁶ .

Yours sincerely,

Captain T Coulson,
16^th Royal Irish Rifles,
Brownlow House,
Lurgan.