5th AUG ’43
Dear Mum,
As
things stand at present it looks as if I will be doing a lot of writing before
I catch up with my mail.
Another lot of mail came in last night & out of it I received
8 from you. They were No.60 & 62 to 68. That makes 14 letters that I have
received from you in the last few days. I also received an airgraph No…. from
you & one from Betty.
In the last three days I have received 34 letters, 2 airgraphs
& 3 cables, which is pretty good going.
I can’t
understand how Vivi’s letters arrived there before Maureen’s because I wrote
& posted them at the same time so that they would get there together. I
received an answer back from Vivi but so far there’s been nothing from Maur.
I don’t think it will be very hard for you to guess where the
squadron is now because like the eighth army we have got too good of a name
& so I don’t think we will get a spell until everything is finished &,
as for coming home, that seems further away than ever.
I’ll bet
Dad had his chest stuck out when he got all those fish the other day &
Uncle Jim only got a couple. There seems to be plenty of them around there now
so I’ll do a bit of fishing when I get home.
The cutting you sent of the two fellows with beards were some of
our squadron, you can imagine what we looked like when everyone had a beard
like that.
I am enclosing a few more notes to let you see the different sorts
of money we have to get used to over here. The 25 Syr piastres is worth 7 ½
pence, the 5 Gyppo piastres is 1/3 and the 10 lire is worth 5d. I can’t send
you any Palestine banknotes because the smallest is 500 Mils worth 12/6.
I will
write to that shop in India as soon as I get some of this mail out of the way.
Don’t think there is anything else for the present but I will
write again soon.
Much love to
Dad & Betty & my regards to Leo
Lovingly
Yours
Frank
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