"To the officer in Commands, I am making an application to know if it is possible to have m husband transferred from France now on active service there...

...I have been left with eight children, five of which are boys, four going to school. They are getting over bearing and need a father's hand...

... My husband is 45 years old, do you think it possible for him to get some duty nearer home. I may also add that my husband joined voluntarily."

(http://www.stockwellwarmemorial.org/samuel-levy-2/)

"I am directed to inform you that if you husband is desirous, on account of age, of being posted to a Home Service unit, he must make an application to him Commanding officer. I am afraid he cannot be brought home to look after his children."

(http://www.stockwellwarmemorial.org/samuel-levy-2/)

The Army Pay Office asked an 'E.G. Potter' to investigate. Visitors judged Pauline's home to be "nicely kept" and said the children were "well cared for." Pauline was not forthcoming enough on why she found the children unmanageable, merely telling her visitors that "with as many boys, her husband ought to have a chance to work in England."

They talked to the headmaster of the boys' school, who had no complaints and said the boys were not naughty. He had noticed no change in their behaviour when Samuel went to war. #

However, the general feeling was that Mrs Levy was a "superior woman and one who should have every consideration."

http://www.stockwellwarmemorial.org/samuel-levy-2/