15th October 1943
Dear Mum,
The canteen
is out of airgraph forms so I am sending yo this letter in answer to your
letters No’s 83, 84, 85 & 86.as soon as some more forms arrive I will send
you one.
At present I am so full up with a cold that I can hardly see. Hope
it goes away soon because I don’t want to get caught with cold for the whole
winter.
With your four letters I also received one from Aunty Lizzie, so I
answered it straight away because it’s some time since I wrote last. Also sent
a few words to George Brissett.
You said
George Young was away with the C.C.C. but the censor thought that I shouldn’t
know where he was so he cut that out.
Re the jewellery I told Betty that I would get for you – I thought
you would rather have something for the house so I didn’t get anything while I
was in Palestine on sick leave. Before I caught up to the squadron some of the
boys got some very nice bedspreads etc. so when we get near an inhabited town
again I will see what I can get. I will also get some towels & house linen
seeing as how it is rationed now. Some of the boys bought some best quality
double bed sheets for about 6 or 8 bob a pair. The reason why things are so
cheap over here is that before the war there was eighty lire in a pound
sterling but now there is four hundred to the pound. It takes the It is a few
days to wake up to the fact & if we get in early the stuff is almost given
away. I’ll see what I can do anyway.
By the way.
I was expecting to get a cable to say that the parcels had arrived. They are
well overdue so I hope they have not been lost because they were the best I
have sent so far.
Well, Mum,
our kites are going off shortly so I had better go out & get mine ready.
Much love to Dad, Betty & Leo Lovingly Yours
Frank
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