FAC159/1/86

Letter: from Richard Dillingham at No 21 Kite & Balloon Section RFC Camp, [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer has been getting on alright although the weather has been "about the limit again with cold winds and rain"; - expects by the time she reads this letter she will have read in the papers about things being a "bit lively"; - notes that there has been a big advance along the front and things are going along first class for us, "Lets hope this is the beginning of the finishing stroke"; - notes that owing to the advance they have been out of range so have had a little easier time; - notes that Easter Sunday & Monday were busy days, "We were told we were the first balloon to be up in the air with two pilots on board in France"; - comments that it was a very windy morning and that they had their work cut out to manage it; - notes that they saw two or three balloons during the morning that had broken away from other sections along the front; - comments that after they got back to the camp some of the Officers, men and him went up through a wood to the top of a hill from which they could see the line, "and a grand sight it was, we could see the guns all along spitting fire and the shells bursting in the distance while the ground all round seemed alive with them"; - "I can just imagine what a job you had with the boys at Ampthill"; - asks how Flo and George are getting on; - comments that she should not worry about the garden as the things set will come up alright; - asks her to tell his mother not to worry and that he will write as soon as he gets time;

April 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine

Easter, Royal Flying Corps, military balloons, weather, wind, rain, newspapers, FLITWICK, France, AMPTHILL