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Croce Rossa Britannica Prima Sezione Intendenza Tera Armata Zona di Guerra (?) Italia Nov 19/18 Dear Mother Finally at last I have gotten down to writing you. I am more than consumed with remorse for my neglect for the past three weeks and I can imagine how you would feel on opening one of my big envelopes and finding a scrambled card instead of a letter. It is just two weeks since the Spanish Influenza flew over from Spain and caught me just after we had reached the Tagliamento. We had a lovely villa where had been an Austrian command and an officers bath house, lovely furniture and fine beds all left by the Austrians and luxury of luxuries for an Italian house, a little iron stove in every room with a limited supply of coal in the house. A fine sun parlour caught the sun from morning till night and there was a fountain continually playing in the garden. Well as I was saying, two weeks ago I caught the "Flu" and today is the first time that I have been up and I am taking advantage of it to write to you. For ten days they fed me nothing by milk and Bovril but now I am well on my way to recovery and am taking a bit of everything. It seems that the "Flu" is serious when complications especially of the lungs set in. I had catarrh and am still a little stuffy and dull about the head, however that will soon pass away and I expect to be back at work in a little over a week. I expect the Italian action has made wonderful reading in your papers and you will be almost beside yourselves at the German news. I fancy the headlines in the Globe and Spec. You must be sure and forward some of them to me. Our action started with a tremendous bombardment on the anniversary of Caporetto day. It went on all night and we attacked at dawn. There was no holding the Austrians and the second day we