Letter from Sgt William Wellard, Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles to his mother from Cairo, 7 Dec 1916.
Sgt Wellard describes: we’re going to be made into infantry and I detest the prospect, does Dad know any officers who could get me something in the ASC or Army Veterinary Corps?
From a collection of letters and papers relating to the service of CSM William Wellard, Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles and 10th Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 1913-1919.
Associated with World War One, Egypt and Palestine (1914-1918).
William Wellard was a farmer in civilian life