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Letter: from Richard Dillingham at 7th Lincoln's Battalion, [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer has just received two letters from her and is pleased to hear she and the boys are getting on well; - notes he hadn't had a letter for nearly a fortnight, "there is nothing I miss or look forward to so much as your letters"; - comments by the end of a day drilling he is tired out; - "I am about fed up which is the case with most of the fellows here and I don't think there are any of us would mind so much if they would but give us leave, as the majority of us have been out here 12 months"; - notes he has had a lecture on bombs, some bomb throwing practice and the way a bombing party bomb the trenches; - notes he not seen any more if Daniel Webb or Alf Kingham since he has been at this parade ground; - comments he is sorry to hear Father is poorly again and thinks he must be in a bad way if the doctor has told him not to go to Ampthill anymore; - asks her if anything serious happens with his father to get a telegram signed by either a Doctor, Magistrate or the Chief of Police and to send it to his commanding Officer; - comments that everybody thinks the war cannot possibly last much longer and will be over in a few weeks; - comments that the boys are becoming little beggars, "you know who they take after don't you not me this time but Uncle Williams family"; - comments that Bert Barker is to marry to Mary Crawley; - notes he is glad she got those things for him and hopes he will soon be able to use them;

October 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Barker, Bert,
Crawley, Mary,
Webb, Daniel,
Kingham, Alfred

doctor, magistrate, letters, 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, police, CHILDREN, FLITWICK, France, AMPTHILL