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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 in the best of health and spirits and hopes she and the children are too; - notes that they are still in the same camp and are having a cushy time compared too recently; - comments that their balloon was in the air for nearly nine hours without changing observers, "which is the longest time without coming down since we've been in France and by what we hear did some very good work"; - notes that the weather has turned very warm again and in the middle of the day "the sun fairly scorches you so we are all getting well browned"; - comments that he was on guard duty and that "it was quite a treat to be out" and "I could hear the nightingale singing in some trees not far away when the guns were quiet for a minute or two"; - notes that different coloured lights are sent up as signals and to see a bombardment in the dark is a sight one would never forget; - is pleased to hear that the garden is coming on so well; - notes that the trees are mostly in full bloom while some are in full leaf; - asks how the sweet peas are getting on and to keep the ground round them well hoed; - is supprised to hear about Nell & Tommy, "So they have been caught again at last"; - asks if they are still building the aerodrome up at the Ridgeway; - asks whether George Fowler is still in England;

12 April 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Fowler, George

letters, Royal Flying Corps, weather, CHILDREN, military balloons, air force aerodromes, trees, nightingales, birds, FLITWICK, Flitwick Ridgeway, France