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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 enduring some very wet and windy weather which is making things very miserable, "yesterday it blew a gale all day and we had a job to keep the tents and marquee from being blown away, while the balloon was nearly blown away and broke a lot of its rigging"; - comments there are rumours that all the Class A men in the balloon section are going to be sent down to Calais to be trained for a Combatant Corps; - expects that he will be one of the men sent; - notes he has seen in the Beds Times there are several of the Flitwick boys home on leave including Reg Carr and Sid Groom and that Tom Virgin has had along time in hospital with rheumatism; - notes she had a party for the children and expects the boys were delighted; - asks if she had a good time picnicking on the moors but wonders if they didn't find it a bit damp, "I guess it just suited the children to go paddling in the stream"; - expects the boys have made a fuss of Mins dog and will miss it when she takes it back; - asks how George and Daniel Webb are getting on; - is sorry that she cannot get anyone to do her gardening for her but hopes next year he will be doing it; - asks her not to worry about this letter and will write in a day or two;

September 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Webb, Daniel,
Carr, Reg,
Virgin, Tom,
Groom, Sid

Bedfordshire Times, military balloons, CHILDREN, dogs, hospitals, rheumatism, weather, rain, Royal Flying Corps, FLITWICK, France