Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey to his parents(2)

Photocopy of a letter from Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o Caixa Postal 71 or 74, Lisbon, Portugal to his parents, describing life in the trenches: ‘Well mother we are on the front line at last it is safe enough only for the shells comeing over but we have got that used to them comeing over that we take them as a joke… we get paid every week and we spend on grub and cigs, I never touch the drink now it is only a cod getting drunk out here you need your head where I am… Well mother it is terrible to see the way the Reds smashed up the chapels here it would make your blood boil but they are rotten cowards’.