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Letter: from Richard Dillingham at RFC Camp [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer has moved from the last camp and has not received any letters from his wife for a while; - comments they arrived at the camp by rail and had some fine views of the country; - notes that they are still under canvas and that the weather is not very good with some very sharp frosts; - comments he went on a route march to a small town and that " the French people are a rather dirty lot especially the children, although there were a few nice buildings in the place the majority of the houses are a dirty miserable looking lot. The streets are cobbled and narrow and all the waste and dirty water runs down the sides"; - has met Wilfred Abbiss and the two Dentons from Harlington who are also at the camp, W Denton is a flight sergeant and his brother a surgeon; - asks how his wife and children are getting on? and wishes he was at home;

21 October 1916

From: 1916 To: 1916

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Abbiss, Wilfred,
Denton,
Denton, W

letters, out county railways, weather, surgeon, Royal Flying Corps, FLITWICK, HARLINGTON, France