Letter from Alice Katherine Wynne to Sophia (Sophy) Sarah Wynne, 15 October 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Alice Katherine Wynne

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Letter from Alice Katherine Wynne (1833-1928) to her cousin Sophia (Sophy) Sarah Wynne in which she references the health of her husband (Albert Augustus Wynne). She also goes into great detail about the contents of a letter received from her son Charlie (1895-1917) describing his lack of food, lack of sleep due to night watch duties in the trenches and of minor injuries hospitalised him for a short while.Alice Katherine Wynne was born to Reverend John George Wynne and Emily Goold. She was married to Albert Augustus Wynne and was the mother of five children, among them Charles Wyndham Wynne. Charles served as a captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery in the First World War. He died of wounds received at Armentieres, June 1917.

 Trinity College Dublin TCD MS 10247/1/510, TCD MS 10247/1/510 https://letters1916.ie/item/919 English Alice Katherine Wynne 1916-10-15 The Cottage, Ireland Sophia (Sophy) Sarah Wynne Female World War I (1914-1918) Personal Relations Personal Relations

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 The Cottage Sund. Oct-15-1916 My dearest Sophy, This is a day of quiet so I must take advantage of it to write to you. I am afraid that you will feel the sudden change to cold that we had last night. Albert is I think, better, he has more intervals of comfort but cannot get to bed before about 2 o'clock. Last night at that hour he had a wretchedly bad attack & was induced to inhale an ' arugl' capsule which he likes to keep as a refuge when he is really bad. It relieved him won— derfully & he had the best night he has had for some weeks. a 'delightful sleep'. We had a long letter from Charlie yesterday as far as we can make out he had one nights sleep in a weeks. Then he was tramping 2. all day & dead tired & sleepy at 9 so he went to bed, there was call up at 10. to waken night duty at the battery every time he sat down he felt he was dropping off to sleep so walked about till 9 o'clock the next morning ( I forgot to say that the day before he did the 30 miles tramp through trenches half had no supper the evening before & no breakfast that morning!) Then the Captain came up & while C. was waiting to be relieved he was talking to him when suddenly every — thing went round. & the next thing he knew he was on a stretcher he has no idea how he fainted, They took him off for a long way in a Med X van to hospital 3. he was so dead tired he slept all the way & is very indignant with the Capt for sending him to hospital but I think it was the one sensible thing in the whole show it really is irrational to use up men in such a way — On one day I was left in charge of a live battery ( he had never seen the guns before) & orders came to fire on an enemy tramway but after 5 rounds the mist came down so that the ob— server could not see & they had to stop to C's great sorrow They seem to have been moved backwards & for— wards in the apparently 4 aimless way that they are walked about & as C expresses it they 'scavenged' 3 positions for their battery & were not allowed to occupy any of them. I am sure the work was very arduous & the whole thing an en— acting experience to the boy which no doubt added to the complete exhaustion helped to finish him, he wrote from hospital. up & dressed on the 9 th the day after he was brought there & was very comfortable & they were going to have a concert that evening & he said he was 'right as rain ' & hoped to be sent 5 back next day he was only concerned at being taken a— way from his battery. He has been laying his telephone lines. He says their present position is quite a good one & they have billets in the one house left standing & there is a grand work = sleep, they are making a splendid 'ob— servation park' & he hopes they may be left there to use it but it is doubtful whether they will not be moved on I know you like to hear of him, so have sent you all the particulars. poor miss Baird is weather bound here by these awful gales She is dangerously seasick & it is sad if she is to lose the 6 good of her holiday by a bad crossing we have quite lost our hearts to her. I think she is really happy at finding her— self in a home once more She has been over here for five years away from her family & is often homesick — There was a wire from May this morning to say that Jack had arrived yesterday, & they might perhaps read this tomorrow afternoon. Will you dear S. send this on to Corris as it takes a long time to give Charlie's news & it will save me writing it out again We are much looking forward to having Jack & May with us for a bit. The wind has been so wild that the trees are nearly leafless before they have turned Following is from the first page ever your very loving Alice K. Wynne Alice Katherine Wynne Letter from Alice Katherine Wynne to Mr Oliver, 22 March 1916.Letter from Alice Katherine Wynne to Mr Oliver, 31 March 1916Letter from Alice Katherine Wynne to Sophia (Sophy) Sarah Wynne, 15 October 1916Letter from Emily Adelaide Wynne to her mother Alice Katherine Wynne, 19 January 1916A Letter from Alice Katherine Wynne to Veronica Wynne, 8 Dec 1916Letter from Charles Wyndham Wynne to his mother Alice Katherine Wynne, 22 November 1915Letter from Emily Adelaide Wynne to her mother Alice Katherine Wynne, 18 January 1916.Letter from Charles Wyndham Wynne to his mother Alice Wynne, 24 March 1916 The Cottage, Ireland Letter from Alice Katherine Wynne to Sophia (Sophy) Sarah Wynne, 15 October 1916