29th October 1943
Dear Mum,
I
received an airgraph from you to-day which was sent on Sept 28th.
Also received a cable from you & an airgraph from Norm Dunn. Cables are
taking their time to get here nowadays because this one was sent on the 18th
May which is over five months ago. The reason for the delay is that it was
addressed to LAC. Turney & it has been laying in the sorting room at
Auspost in Cairo. It was a cable to say you were sorry to hear Rex died etc.
Fancy Norm Dunn getting married again, but as
he said you’re never too old to get caught. I must write to him as soon as I
finish this & give him a dig for getting himself caught the second time. He also told me that
he was over to see you. As yet your letter telling me about his visit has not
arrived.
You must have given your leg a good knock
when you fell, I hope it’s better by now.
I’m still waiting for a
cable to say that the parcels I sent had arrived. They may take a bit longer
than usual because I posted them at the New Zealand Club & they may have
been sent to NZ first. I have just about given up hope of receiving the cake
you sent with the last parcel of eats because the parcel arrived about a month
ago & if the two were sent the same day the cake should be here by now.
Still the mails are mixed up as much as anything.
No
more room now so will close. Much love to Dad, Bet
& Leo
Lovingly
Yours,
Frank
Letter No. 108
AUST. No 34171 LAC Cooney, JF No. 3 Squadron R.A.A.F., Cent. Medit. Forces
3rd Nov ‘43
Dear Mum,
I have been putting off writing
for a few days in the hopes that some mail would arrive, but none has turned
up yet, so I had better try &
scratch out a few lines even though news is as scarce as usual.
Leave to Naples & the Isle of Capri started
yesterday. We are going in parties of twenty or thirty for five days at a time.
The party which left yesterday are going to see if they can get a hotel in
Naples for us to stop at. I don’t know if I’m going in the next party or the
one after that but I will write & let you know how things are. If it’s as
good as Bari I don’t think there will be any complaints from the boys because
everyone enjoyed themselves in there.
I still have two parcels to send to you, one for
Dad & one for you I will send them as soon as can get something to wrap
them in.
I would have liked you to
have seen the boys catching the fowls the other day. We chased them around for
a long while but they were too swift for us so we armed ourselves with seven
foot sticks of bamboo & then formed a ring around the unfortunate fowls
& closed in on them. As they tried to run between two of us we made mighty swipes with the sticks & hit
the fowls at a place just below the head. The thirty odd fowls were being
plucked in less than two minutes.
No
more now so I will close. Much love to Dad, Betty & Leo. Lovingly Yours,
Frank
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