• Reference
    FAC159/1/140
  • Title
    Letter: from Richard Dillingham at No 21 Kite & Balloon Section RFC Camp, [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer is still in the same camp and thinks he will be based there for another five weeks; - notes they are there for a course of infantry training and for the last few days have been going through squad drill; - notes the Class A men from all of the K B Sections are at the camp; - comments he has met many men he knew at Lydd along with Daniel Webb and Alf Kingham and that they are the first men he has met from Flitwick since being out there; - gives his new address, No 35374 2nd AM R Dillingham 9th Balloon Company R.F.C. attached to 63rd R.N.D. B.D. A.R.G. S24 B.C.T. France; - notes they are having a much busier time than at their last section; - asks if the boys are still little beggars and wonders how their chickens are?; - hopes this letter won't worry her and that he will write in a few days time;
  • Date free text
    October 1917
  • Production date
    From: 1917 To: 1917
  • Level of description
    item