FAC159/3/6

Letter: from Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick to Richard Dillingham - writer hopes her husband is still alright and thinks it must be very cold and miserable for him; - notes she has received a field card from him that he sent in September; - asks if he thinks he will have to go back up to the line; - "If only you could get that job at the baths, it would be a relief to me"; - wonders when the war will finish and that it doesn't seem any nearer now than it did a year ago; - notes Bert Barker has had another months holiday, " I cant understand how he can get the time off as he does. It is a mystery to everybody but he couldn't look at anybody while he was at home"; - notes Bob Mann came and emptied the cesspool but that the drain is still blocked up; - "Its a nuisance there always seems to be something wrong with the works since you went away"; - hopes he will soon be home; - comments how Richard and Ben have grown and how he would love to hear them talking to one another; - "Ben asked me the other day if engines had got ears. I told him I didn't know what he meant, so he said you told Grandpa that Mr Shrives had gone to the "Engine ears" (engineers); - asks what sort of living is he getting and that she will send him a parcel of food; - notes she would love to see him as it seems such a long time since she saw him last;

14 November 1917

From: 1917 To: 1917

item

Dillingham, Christine,
Dillingham, Ben,
Dillingham, Richard,
Shrives,
Barker, Bert,
Mann, Bob

letters, DRAINAGE, CHILDREN, colds, engineer, Flitwick Kings Road