• Reference
    FAC159/1/32
  • Title
    Letter: from Richard Dillingham at RFC Camp, Lydd [Kent] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer has been given the orders that their section is to be moved overseas to France; - comments he is pleased to be going to France instead of Salonika [Greece] and that it is not too far away from home; - notes they are very busy getting everything ready and that the lorries have left for Avonmouth; - thinks that he will be leaving Sunday and sailing from Southampton; - notes he has received a letter from his mother in which she mentions that Ben had run away and how he wanted to see Rose's, [Christine Dillingham's sister] baby; - asks what did next door say about them breaking the glass and trying to get the tomatoes?; - notes he is on cookhouse fatigue again and has not got much time for writing;
  • Date free text
    12 October 1916
  • Production date
    From: 1916 To: 1916
  • Level of description
    item