Letter from Roy Bruce to Maud Bruce

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EXTRACT FROM CHRISTCHURCH PRESS OF 8th. FEBRUARY 1917
DON'T WORRY
THE SOLDIER'S PHILOSOPHY

Henri Raveau , a Paris business man, at present sergeant at arms
of engineers at the front in France , sent to a friend in the United
States this declaration, which, he says, is very popular in the
trenches:-

You have two alternatives - either you are mobilised or you are
not. If you are not you have nothing to worry about.

If you are you have two alternatives- either you are in camp or
at the front. If you are in camp you have nothing to worry about.

If youare you are on the fighting line you have two alternatives -
either you scrap or you don't. If you don't you have nothing to
worry about.

If you scrap you have two alternatives-either you get hurt or
you don't. If you don't you have nothing to worry about.

If you get hurt you have two alternatives - either you are
slightly hurt or you get badly hurt. If slightly hurt you have
nothing to worry about.

If you get badly hurt you have two alternatives- either you
recover or you don't. If you recover you have nothing to worry
about.

If you don't you have done with worry for ever.