FAC159/1/61

Letter: from Richard Dillingham at No 21 Kite & Balloon Section RFC Camp, [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer is working on building a new camp and expects to move soon; - comments that he is pleased that she has got her extra allowance "as now things are so dear"; - asks if she has plenty of coal & wood?; - comments it is very cold there with frosts and it is a job to keep warm especially during the night; - notes he has been on cookhouse fatigue which is a job he likes as he generally gets a good feed; - hopes that Min is staying with her over the weekend; - asks his wife not to send him another parcel as she will need all she can get; - comments he has read in the newspaper that people in England are going to have allowances of so much per head; - notes he had a parcel from Alice which contained some oxo cubes and cigarettes; - lists what will need doing in the garden over the next few months; - "It will be plenty early enough for you to set potatoes, parsnips, peas, carrots, onions or anything else by the middle of March;

January 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine

coal, frost, weather, newspapers, Royal Flying Corps, tobacco, potatoes, peas, carrots, onions, parsnips, FLITWICK, France