• Reference
    FAC159/1/54
  • Title
    Letter: from Richard Dillingham at No 21 Kite & Balloon Section RFC Camp, [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer has received a letter from his wife the first for nearly a week; - notes he is getting on fairly well now but is a bit fed up with the wet weather and the mud round the camp; - is pleased that the children liked their postcards and will send some more in a few days; - "Tell Ben he is a good boy to send me his drawings of the puffer engines"; - notes he is surprised to hear about Mrs Cousins and wonders what Charlie Cousins thinks about it; - asks whether there is a party of Royal Flying Corps fellows still in the village and if they have started to put up the sheds for the aeroplanes up the Ridgeway?; - "I wish they would shift me down there, it would suit us both first class"; - notes that he has had a letter from Emily & Sid, [Christine Dillingham's brother and sister]; - notes he will write a letter to mother in a few days;
  • Date free text
    December 1916
  • Production date
    From: 1916 To: 1916
  • Level of description
    item