1 Rawal Pindi Club
Rawal Pindi 18th May 1916. My dear Mother I have not written to you for ages so here
goes. As you see I have moved into the club
quarters. For one thing the Royal Hotel has has closed
here & opened at Murree. also there are tons of
quarters vacant here now. There are 18 in
all & in the cold weather they are crammed
with the staff etc. No more news come about my going off
to the garden of Eden or up that way. From 2 all accounts it is an over rated place. Leastwise
for the next three months. I hope there is
a field company job going when I get there.
They have just started to build a Railway from
Bushra up the bank of the river & I see
possible visions of cooly driving. Which would
be rotten. Prince got a letter from the division
asking for suggestions for the formation of bombing
schools one in the Murree hills. I expect he
will get the job as he wrote in soreeds about
it. If he does he says he will put in for
me as an assistant bottlewasher etc. which will ruin my chances of getting
off. I tried to argue the point but he was
not having any. The thing has to go up 3 to our old friends the God of India so I
expect they will sit on it for a year at
least. If so I shall be safe. I am going on leave on 1st June up to Gharial
I am going to stay with Martin in tents
on the Gharial Flats. (Where No 13 Coy was last year)
There is a Col Smallwood R.A. in command
of the Arsenal here. he says he knows Daddy
well & wished to be rembered to him.
he says he once sold him a horse called
Whadhurst. & that It ought to have been
run in steeple chases — not on the flat.
Please Thank Phil for her last weeks mail 4 & tell her I will answer it next week.
also Ander for his long letter. I am sorry
to hear that he has developed a liking
for old square face so young From your loving son. Jimmy
P.S. No news from Billy. 5 Mrs. A. C. Tate.
Slieve-na-Failthé
Whiteabbey
Co Antrim IRELAND