BACK THE ROYAL GAZETTE Tuesday, 9th February, 1915.
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A SOLDIER�S POST CARD.
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  We have been favoured by Mr. George Tear, of Hamilton with an inspection of a post card which he has received from his son, Private Alfred G. Tear, who when the war began was in New York. He immediately left for England and joined the 6th Battalion of the Bedfords, was afterwards transferred to the 3rd Battalion and left for France on the 12th January.
   The post card is very interesting as showing the rules under which military correspondence is allowed.
   Of ordinary size it runs as follows:--

   I am quite well.
   I have been in hospital
                         --sick and am doing well.
                         --wounded--hoped to
                             be discharged soon
I have been sent down to the base.
I have received your letter dated.
                              --telegram.
                              --   parcel.
Letters follow first opportunity.
I have received no letter from you
                                             lately.
                   --for a long time.

  The writer strikes out any sentence which does not convey the information he desires to give and the card without date or place name is marked by the company officer.
   It is rather remarkable that of Mr. Tear�s family three are volunteers, two being in the contingent for the front. Mrs. Dixon, (Miss Maud Tear) was in South Africa with her husband, who, since the war has been promoted to Lieutenant and is recovering from a severe wound in England. Mrs. Stroud, (Miss Daisy Tear) is the wife of Q.M.S. Stroud, A.S.C., who has been in France ever since the war began, and the son in the Bedfords who saw his sisters in England before leaving for France.
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