AU34/26/4/81

Letter to mother Ena Mary Underwood from Andrew Underwood, BRPWIU [British repatriated Prisoner of War Interrogation Unit], Tokyo. 'Reference the piano' [given to writer by an old lady who lived in Dunstable Street, Mrs Foulkes, I think. It eventually given to the Bedford Museum, where it was displayed in their days on the Embankment].

July 1953

From: 1953 To: 1953

Reference to air field at Metfield, in Suffolk, and my visit to Mrs Wingfield & her son Getvaise there with my uncle Eddie Nightall. The Wingfields used to hire one of A E Grimmer's cars to ferry between Ampthill House & various places in East Anglia when private cars were restricted because of war. All the writer can remember of this trip collecting Mrs W. & Gervaise Wingfield from Ampthill House and after leaving them in Norfolk, called in on Mettingham Hall (grandfather's cousin) on the way home. Gervaise had been ill - mastoids, or something - and had his face bandaged.. Instructions to Mother to get a typewriter 'Undenwoods have been proved best' for sister Rose to learn to type on. Someone has sent chocolate & toffees in a parcel 'shudder to think what will have happened ...such thing impossible here.'

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Underwood, Andrew Grimmer,
Underwood, Ena Mary,
Foulkes,
Wingfield, Gervase Christopher Brinsmade,
Nightall, Eddie,
Underwood, Rosemary Anne,
Grimmer, Albert Edward

family correspondence, army, Tokyo, piano, Ampthill Dunstable Street, Suffolk, Ampthill House, typewriter