4th Nov ‘43
Dear Mum,
I wrote to you yesterday but to-day some mail
arrived. From you I received letters No’s
87, 88 & 89. Also received one from Rex’s wife & one from Norm Dunn.
You certainly seem to be well in the wars these
days. First it’s your knee & now it’s your ankle.
What Howard C (perhaps his Uncle Howard Cooney?) says
about our beaut “Robert” doesn’t surprise me at all. I told the boys about it
& we had a good laugh – also a few of the officers. By the way, our “Bobby”
is now C.O. at Mildura & that is the station all members returning from
this squadron are sent to get used to the bulldust of home stations after being
free from that sort of thing for a couple of years.
The blue I had for you was lost somewhere in
Tripoli when we were moving around so much. However, I should be able to get
some for you over here. If so I will get some & send it to you.
Yesterday the crowd I came over with completed
nineteen months overseas. I don’t know if it has seemed that long to you but to
us the time seems to have flown. I don’t know if you read that piece in the
papers about ground staff serving overseas could come home after two years but
if you did you needn’t take any notice of it because we are here for the
duration of this section of the war whether it lasts another two months or two
years. There are a lot of bets placed in the squadron that it will all be over
by next Easter. I hope so anyway.
Rumors are going around
that the army we have been supporting since we started the push in Egypt will
be pulled out shortly & be sent to England. If so it’s fairly certain that
we will go with them because Monty gave us a talk some time ago & told us
that wherever he took the 8th he would take our wing. I hope the
rumor is true because I’ll never get another chance to see the world so I might
as well see what I can while I’m over here.
The pilots told us
yesterday that the hills about 20 miles further up this side of Italy are
covered with snow & from the temperature today I don’t doubt it. The wind
is as cold as a mother-in-law’s breath.
I still haven’t sent your
parcels but will do so one of these days.
Well, Mum, that’s all for
the present but I will write again soon.
Also received four bundles of papers in to-days
mail. I always forget to mention them.
Much love to Dad, Betty & Leo.
Lovingly
Yours,
Frank
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