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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 shifted camp again and notes his battalion goes up to the line again tonight; - notes he has been put on "brigade details" so will not be going up to the trenches, "Its a bit of luck for me especially with the cold wet weather we are having"; - notes they are having a lot of rain; - comments "It was bad enough when we were up there a fortnight ago as it was mud up to our knees then but will be much worse this time after all this rain"; - notes he has received her letter of the 21st but has not had the parcel; - expects that it was exciting at home with the Zeppelins but asks if she was frightened? "What a good thing they didn't drop any bombs near you and that there was no one killed at Bedford"; - notes he saw an account in the newspapers of the raid and where five of them had been brought down; - notes he is sorry that Ben is a little beggar and expects it is only the Dunham blood in him that makes him so is it; - asks her to tell him that he is a good boy for sending him some drawings and hopes they will get the postcards he has sent them; - expects it is time she had a new grate in the kitchen at home, "So Hawtin says they are very expensive. I expect they would be just now but still if that one is no good you will be obliged to have another"; - is glad that she has shown his letter to his mother as he knows it would ease her mind;

November 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Dillingham, Ben,
Dunham

weather, rain, air raids over UK, postcards, 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, newspapers, military airships, aerial warfare, FLITWICK, France, BEDFORD