Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    FAC159/1/27
  • Title
    Letter: from Richard Dillingham at RFC Camp, Lydd [Kent]; to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick
  • Date free text
    September 1916
  • Production date
    From: 1916 To: 1916
  • Scope and Content
    - writer has been on cookhouse fatigue all day (Sunday); - comments on the fire mentioned in his last letter (FAC159/1/26). The fire broke out at 3am and men in his section were told to help put it out. Some went on the fire engine while others pulled down buildings. "There was some fun as there were about 200 soldiers of all sorts and some of them were drunk before dinner and had the hose turned on them"; - notes they were afraid that the fire would give their camp away should any Zeppelins come over; - runs through the details of an exercise to retrieve the balloon; - notes that he went on a walk to New Romney and back, where he had tea in the Wesleyan Institute. On the way back he walked along the beach where he saw dozens of gulls and no end of shellfish and shrimps; - comments he went to a concert at the Wesleyan Chapel for the Harvest Festival and the opening of the new organ, "it was a jolly nice concert and there was some fine singing"; - asks how his wife is getting on with the garden, has she dug any more potatoes and gathered the Damsons and Apples?; - comments that he will get Frank to come down to dig a bit of ground and set a few cabbage plants; - asks if Ben and the baby still want to know where he is?; - hopes his wife is having a good time in Toddington and asks her to send him some wool to darn his socks with; - notes there is a rumour about them going to Reading;
  • Level of description
    item
Hierarchy browser