‘Friday Evening. SS Geelong
Dear Mother,
I’m writing this from nowhere, or somewhere, and under difficulties. The good steamship Geelong is rocking about and it is a bit hard to write.’

“It’s suddenly obvious. Of course. He’d taught himself to write left-handed. Seven months after the Battle of Pozières, he was writing again with the only hand he had.” — #JonathanGreen

#AIF 2/27 Btn. #Anzac / #SSGeelong / #Pozières <https://themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/april/jonathan-green/war-correspondence#mtr>