Letter from Private Patrick Byrne to Monica Roberts

Transcription: [page 1] Dear Miss Roberts, I just received your most welcome letter which I always long to get from Ireland, it reminds me of the happy times I spent their. I came out to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force and I have been serviced down the line. Once gassed at Ypres on 9th May, wounded 22nd January this year and could not get home, but I am still in the land of the living, so …