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Letter: from Richard Dillingham at No 21 Kite & Balloon Section RFC Camp, [Belgium] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer has moved to another camp and has been busy shifting stores, inflating the balloon and cleaning up the camp; - notes he has been doing some gardening and has planted some lettuce plants, "How I wish I was able to dig a bit in our garden at home"; - hopes she had a nice time in Bedford and expects she left the children at home; - comments that it doesn't seem possible that it is twelve months since he joined up or that he has been out there nearly nine months; - asks how is Maud Dunham getting on and whether she still worries over losing Apthorpe?; - "So our boys are little beggars after the fruit are they. Well old girl they must take after you so there is a little excuse for them"; - would like to hear the boys talking to themselves and to Mrs Fowler; - asks if the boys run away if they get the chance; - asks whether Miss Horne (nicknamed Cuckoo, Parish Nurse) found out who had her strawberries; - asks if she knows anything about how George Fowler and Daniel Webb are getting on?;

25 June 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Dillingham, Ben,
Fowler, George,
Webb, Daniel,
Dunham, Maud,
Horne

fruit, strawberries, military balloons, lettuce, nurses, FLITWICK, France, BEDFORD