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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 has received a letter from his wife concerning extra money and is sorry to hear the problems she has had over it; - notes he gets 14 shillings pay; - comments there is a general impression among both the Officers and men that the war will be over very shortly; - is sorry to hear that Frank [Dillingham, his brother] has had to go and expects Mother and Father must be very worried; - asks if Father has much work?; - comments "Its a fair disgrace the way things are carried on at these tribunals, to take a fellow like him and leave a chap like young Barker"; - comments "If I get home again I'll tell a few of them something"; - comments that he thought Kate Atkins had got a situation in Kent; - notes that she has a job with the boys to keep them in and thinks that Ben should not go to school this summer as its a long way for him to go;

July 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Atkins, Kate,
Barker, Bert,
Dillingham, Frank

letters, schools, Royal Flying Corps, FLITWICK, France