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Letter: from Richard Dillingham at 7th Lincoln's Battalion, [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer hopes she and the children are both well; - notes he received two letters from he and that it had seemed along time since he had last heard from her; - notes they shifted camp again last night after being paraded at 7pm and then marching 5 miles before being put onto a train; - comments he had been to the station before when he was in his last section to collect gas tubes; - "We travelled in box wagons about 50 of us in a wagon and as we had got all our kit you may guess there wasn't much room to spare"; - notes that they are standing by at the station waiting for the rest of the battalion - wishes he was back in his old section; - asks his wife not to worry if she does not receive a letter at any time for a few days as if it is very difficult for him to write as many as when he was in the balloon section; - comments the weather has changed and there is quite a cold wind with heavy rain; - hopes they wont get a lot of wet weather as he hasn't forgotten last winter yet, "lets hope the war wont go another winter for the sake of the fellows out here"; - notes everybody seems to think it is on its last legs and will finish between now and Christmas; - is pleased to hear that his father is getting better and that the Doctor says it is worry causing his problem; - asks her to tell his mother and father not to worry; - asks how May got on with Brock and to wish her the best of luck when the happy event comes off; Letter: from Richard Dillingham at 7th Lincoln's Battalion, [France] to Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer hopes she and the children are both well; - notes he received two letters from he and that it had seemed along time since he had last heard from her; - notes they shifted camp again last night after being paraded at 7pm and then marching 5 miles before being put onto a train; - comments he had been to the station before when he was in his last section to collect gas tubes; - "We travelled in box wagons about 50 of us in a wagon and as we had got all our kit you may guess there wasn't much room to spare"; - notes that they are standing by at the station waiting for the rest of the battalion - wishes he was back in his old section; - asks his wife not to worry if she does not receive a letter at any time for a few days as if it is very difficult for him to write as many as when he was in the balloon section; - comments the weather has changed and there is quite a cold wind with heavy rain; - hopes they wont get a lot of wet weather as he hasn't forgotten last winter yet, "lets hope the war wont go another winter for the sake of the fellows out here"; - notes everybody seems to think it is on its last legs and will finish between now and Christmas; - is pleased to hear that his father is getting better and that the Doctor says it is worry causing his problem; - asks her to tell his mother and father not to worry; - asks how May got on with Brock and to wish her the best of luck when the happy event comes off;

November 1917

From: 1916 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Dillingham, Ben

letters, weather, schools, Christmas, wind, doctor, 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, FLITWICK, France