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Letter: from Richard Dillingham at No 21 Kite & Balloon Section RFC Camp, [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer is getting on alright and is having an easy time in the section; - notes that he has received her parcel and was pleased with the cake and the eggs; - was sorry to hear about Frank [Dillingham, his brother] but was expecting it; - asks if she was surprised to get a card from Fred Harding?; - comments "No I don't suppose Mrs Major is able to get quite so much in the way of drink now as she used to with the price of it now"; - asks did she see George [Dillingham his brother] when he was up and did Ede [Dillingham] come with him?; - notes Alice has told him that Brock's son was killed in the war; - asks if George Fowler is still in the Bedford's?; - "Poor old Kate Feazey, I feel sorry for her, life is hardly worth living to always be like that"; - notes he is pleased that the children are getting on well together, "I don't suppose they are half the trouble now especially as the nice weather is coming"; - asks if they liked their cards;

March 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Dillingham, George,
Harding, Fred,
Major,
Fowler, George,
Feazey, Kate

Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, Royal Flying Corps, weather, CHILDREN, food & drink, FLITWICK, France