Busy Having Pieces of the Kaiser's Iron Taken From His Chest

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BUSY HAVING PIECES OF THE KAISER’S OLD IRON TAKEN FROM HIS CHEST

And Now Feeling Almost His Former Self

Lance-Corporal W.H. Postlethwaite, 11th Border, writing from a Home Hospital, on May 2nd, says:-

Dear Sir:

I have much pleasure in writing these few lines to thank you for the two parcels of cigarettes received. Also my thanks are due to my uncle W.T. Pursglove, of Philadelphia, and the Moss Bay Roll Turners, for their generous subscription to your valuable Fund, and their good wishes that you would send me some of your cigarettes. I was very pleased to note in the “Star” that you have carried out my wishes, and sent the surplus of my American parcel to my Platoon out in the trenches. The cigarettes which I have received here, and distributed amongst my fellow patients, are excellent, and I am sure that all the fellows “out there” will appreciate them. I sincerely hope they are having a quiet time, and are able to sit down and enjoy their smokes in peace, without being troubled even with an occasional visit by a “whizz-bang” which are very anxious to oblige by flicking off the ash of your cigarette. Of late I have been having a fairly hard time of it. I have been having some pieces of the Kaiser’s old iron taken from my chest, but thanks to the careful attention of the Sisters and nurses, and their untiring devotion to duty, I am again feeling almost my former self. The accomplishments of these “Florence Nightingales” of modern warfare will ever stand out in he annals of British History.

ALL HONOUR TO THEM

Again thanking you, your staff, and readers, and wishing you and them all the very best of health and luck.
—Workington Star and Harrington Guardian, Published 12 May 1916.