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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 arrived at his new camp and is tired out after a 4-mile march to the station and a long train journey over night - notes they had to march with their full packs on and were then put into box wagons along with thirty other men; - comments they were lucky enough to get some cocoa from a YMCA at a station; - asks her if she remembers 12 months yesterday, which was when they met up in Ashford; - asks if Ben is still going to school and what does he have to say about it? - asks how is Richard getting on and that his mother tells him he is "such a little man and talks plainly and quickly"; - thinks they will be moving again tomorrow and will end up close to where they were last winter and spring; - "praying God to take care of you and our boys and bring me back home to you again"; - asks her to tell his mother not to worry and tells her to try and look on the brightest side of things and hope for the best;

October 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Dillingham, Ben

YMCA, schools, Royal Flying Corps, FLITWICK, France, Ashford [Kent]