Posted Message

On Active Service
25-4-1918
Dear Effie,
Many thanks for letter recieved safe will answer it in a day or so. Glad to hear you are better. I am still keeping well. Hope all at home are the same. Remember me kindly to all. Have you heard from Freddy yet? Bob asked to be remembered to you, he is with me again now. Best love to all from Your Loving Hubby.
Earnest
Please write soon.

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The red stamp says "Passed by Censor No. 2016". The "On Active Service" was to let the Post Office know that no stamp was required. Active duty soldiers who were overseas didn't require stamps on their mail.

More about military post offices in WW1 here.

For those who know their WW1 history, they will know that April, 1918 was a particularly evil time to be a soldier in Europe. The first battles of the Somme ended on April 5th. Wikipedia writes, "The Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux took place during the Battle of the Lys, 24–27 April 1918, when an assault was launched against the Allied lines to the east of Amiens. It is notable for the first major use of tanks by the Germans, who deployed fourteen of their twenty A7Vs, and for the first tank-versus-tank battle in history. "

I don't know where Field Post Office 103 was, but there were no safe places at that time.