Letter to Gnr Oram No 9 Cdo. whilst in hospital from Capt. Kennedy

[Courtesy of his son Christopher Oram]

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From Capt.M D Kennedy, 9 Commando, CMF, 9th May 1945.

To: No. 1432670 Gnr. Oram
Isolation ward
No. 66 General Hospital
CMF

My dear Oram,
We got your letter today and was pleased to hear of your whereabouts. I have passed your letter on to Higgs & Capt. Kenton who will give you their patter. As far as the troop is concerned we are still in the same billets as we were when you left us. We went off again to do another job after you left and it lasted four days. It was fairly hard work and 6 troop were in the foremost line the whole time. The only casualties we had were Sgt. Mc Pherson who got a bit of mortar shrapnel in his behind and Sutton and Greenhill ( Mr Clarke's ?? batman) both of whom returned within a few days. The rest are all well and fairly happy apart from the fact we have got Capt. MAW Davies back as adjutant!! We are having a fairly peaceful time and do not work in the afternoons. The Commando has been split up into fighting troops no. 2,4 and 6 with a heavy weapons troop. Capt. Kither was killed, Capt.Bisset wounded and missing (now reported safe in our hands), Lt Peel wounded and making a very good recovery. The area of our last job was in the Argenta gap and we were complemented from General Alexander downwards. Some of the original "spit" casualties have returned except Pegram, but we have had word that they are all getting on very well. I believe the Hospital no. 76 in Tranni (??) is like a 6 troop billet! Hoping that it will not be too long before we see you again and some of us will try and visit you soon.Yours, Mat Kennedy Capt.

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