FAC159/1/15

Letter: from Richard Dillingham at RFC Camp, Lydd [Kent] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer has arrived back at his camp after travelling (not made clear in letter whether he had returned home to Flitwick); - comments that he had a nice drive to Luton which reminded him of the Sundays when they went to Cowbridge; - notes that they were met by a boy scout at St. Pancras station who asked if they would like to go to a Soldiers Home, where they had a "jolly good tea for five pence"; - notes that on the way back to camp he rode in a first class carriage and that an Officer gave him cigarettes and tobacco; - was the last man back to his tent; - comments that he has moved tents again; - asks how poor old Ben got on? and that he has thought about him and his wife a good many times;

July 1916

From: 1916 To: 1916

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Dillingham, Ben

boys Scout movement, Royal Flying Corps, tobacco, FLITWICK, Lydd, St Pancras, LUTON