• Reference
    FAC159/1/50
  • Title
    Letter: from Richard Dillingham at No 21 Kite & Balloon Section RFC Camp, [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer has been on Church Parade; - notes the service took place in a camp about a mile away, and that the service reminded him of Sundays at home; - notes he has been on fatigue duty collecting wood and cutting it up for the cooks; - comments that the weather has turned cold again and that there was a frost first thing; - notes that he has not yet received her parcel; - asks his wife if she gets lonely on a Sunday and whether she takes the children down home after dinner?; - wishes he could get leave for the weekend now and again, "I always think Sundays seem the most miserable day of the week"; - asks how her mother is getting on?; - asks how is May getting on now and has Brock been up lately?; - asks has she seen anything of Laura & Bert lately; - asks if she has seen Mrs Roberts and Dave Roberts and is he still in Nottingham?; - asks how is Archie Ayler getting on?; - asks if the boys have been to see Mrs Fowler lately and what does she have to say about the war now?;
  • Date free text
    November 1916
  • Production date
    From: 1916 To: 1916
  • Level of description
    item