FAC159/1/99

Letter: from Richard Dillingham at No 21 Kite & Balloon Section RFC Camp, [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer is enjoying some good weather and has been having an easy day; - expects that she and the children will be down home or out for a walk; - asks how his her mother getting on?; - comments this is the sort of weather for her gardening and that she will soon have all her seeds through and plenty of weeds; - notes he is writing this letter just behind a trench on ground which a week or two ago wouldn't have been safe to look over; - "The ground is cut up a lot with trenches all over the place running in all directions and shell holes everywhere while the houses that were are nothing only ruins"; - comments there is a continual line of ammunition columns and aeroplanes flying overhead with sometimes as many as 7 or 8 together; - notes that even with all the destruction birds keep singing and has seen several partridges right close up to them; - comments that he is sending the children some more postcards and hopes they will like them;

May 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine

weather, birds, CHILDREN, postcards, military aircraft, Royal Flying Corps, partridges, FLITWICK, France