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Dvr H.Adler
PAL/30775
650, G.T.Coy R.A.S.C
“B”Platoon  
M.E.F.

14 August 1943

My darling,

I am writing to you from the road.  We have come to a halt and I don’t know how long it will last. I also don’t know when I will be able to send you another letter. So don’t be worried if for some time you will have no news of me.

I am writing now in a great hurry. So I want to content myself with telling you the truth and nothing but the truth.

So listen:

I am madly in love with you, my darling wife. You fill my entire horizon. All my heart, all my head. I feel you sweetly inhabiting my body.  You are everywhere – in me and in the world. Never, never, never has a woman been loved as I love you.  It is by me that you are loved so passionately. Know it darling, I beg you.

Oh darling. Oh Yvette my well beloved!!

I leave with my heart filled with your image, filled with you honest (good, pleasing?bon) love for me.  I leave because I must. For us and for others.

But I want, I want, I want with all the strength of my soul and my body, I want to see you again, to feel you on my breast, as I feel you in my heart and never again be separated from you.

Oh darling, how I love you! How we love each other!

Darling, I murmur a prayer and it comes from the depths of my soul: “Yvette, love me. Wait for me and love me to the end, darling!”

I feel that it will happen.

Goodbye darling, I am sad but brave. Because of you. For you. I embrace you more tenderly than ever.

Your, solely your

Henri

I don’t know when I will have news of you. But write often. And send photos of yourself and Ouri. It is sad to leave without your photos.  But you are so firmly in my heart.

Tenderness and kisses

Henry