HG12/15/62

Letter from Henry Hugh Longuet Longuet-Higgins, to his wife [Albinia] Cecil Longuet-Higgins. Sent from Brodsworth, Doncaster.

1 Jul 1940

From: 1940 To: 1940

Arrived on Friday evening and directed to a billet with 'truly charming' people. Describes the family. Spent Saturday rushing about on a bicycle arranging services; once more seems to be starting from scratch. The divisional headquarters mess is trying to cook on a furnace in the village cricket pavilion. Writer is lucky to have a charming billet while othes are away at hotels in Doncaser or pigging it in tents. Yesterday went to 8.00am communion at Brodsworth; the writer remembers the vicar as a chaplain at Hartfleur in 1919. Gives details of the vicar's family. The writer's service at 9.20 only produced one in the congregation, but the parade service in the open air at Hooton Pagnell was a good show. Sherry after the service in the house of the high sheriff. Divisional headquarters is at Brodsworth Hall, a fine country house in a park with the church in the grounds and hardly any village. Great drive to get arms, ammunition and transport. Has got a typewriter to work on. Still have no divisional general. Quite likely to have headquarters here for some time. Really cannot undertake the fixing up of the Wickham arrangements; hopes they won't be silly and difficult.

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Longuet-Higgins, Henry Hugh Longuet,
Longuet-Higgins, Albinia Cecil

family correspondence, World War Two, Doncaster, church services, High Sheriff, Brodsworth Hall