FAC159/4/34

Letter: from Ethel Walbank at 3 Century Street, Ingrow, Keighley [Yorkshire] to, Christine Dillingham at Kings Road, Flitwick - writer has been expecting to hear from her but thinks Christine may not have heard anymore about Richard Dillingham; - notes she has thought about her many, many times; - comments the last letter Christine sent she passed on to her husband Jos and asked him to make inquiries; - notes she had a sad letter back from him after Easter, "He had made enquiries and Richard had been wounded coming out of the line. He thought he could not have been taken prisoner"; - notes he goes on to say, "I lost my best pal when I lost Dick and I shall never make another, I felt it that much when I got back from leave and he was not there"; - comments that her husband thinks Richard must have been hit again, as he couldn't have been taken prisoner where he was; - "I feel that I hardly know what to say to you, words seem so little"; - comments she has had an anxious wait over Easter as Jos has been in the thick of the fighting; - notes it was nearly a fortnight before she received a letter from him, "I really thought something had happened"; - notes that her husband had to run for his life and that he had never run so fast otherwise he would have been taken prisoner; - comments that she would like to hear from Christine again;

13 April 1918

From: 1918 To: 1918

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Dillingham, Richard,
Dillingham, Christine,
Walbank, Ethel,
Walbank, Joseph

Easter, World War One, letters, prisoners of war, Flitwick Kings Road, Keighley