FAC159/1/45

Letter: from Richard Dillingham at RFC Camp, [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer has received a parcel from his wife a month after it had been sent; - notes that all the food in the parcel had gone off; - asks if they send any more parcels that they are sent by parcel post as they are not so long on the road; - notes the weather has been very foggy and it is a problem going out after dark "You cannot see where you are going and are soon up to your knees in slush"; - comments he has had an easy day, which entailed going to the baths and being given a clean change of clothes; - hopes that the boys liked their postcards; - comments he would have liked to heard the boys talking to old Leonard Line (local chimney sweep) "Do you remember the first time he came to see to the chimney and how frightened Ben was of him"; - notes that he is sorry to hear such a poor account of poor old Sam Carr; - asks how Mrs Fowler is getting on? and that George is in hospital; - asks how Daniel Webb is getting on? "I saw in the Times he had been wounded in the hand and also that Walter King was on home leave"; - hopes his turn for leave will soon come; - notes it seems funny not to have heard anything from Nell & Tommy again;

October 1916

From: 1916 To: 1916

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Line, Leonard,
Dillingham, Ben,
Carr, Sam,
Webb, Daniel,
Fowler,
King, Walter

Bedfordshire Times, weather, fog, postcards, chimney sweep, Royal Flying Corps, FLITWICK, France