Letter No. 111
11th Dec ‘43
Dear Mum,
I sent you an airgraph yesterday & I said I would
write when some more mail arrived. Well, to-day I received letter No 90 &
an airgraph No 7 written 17th Nov. Letters No’s 91, 94 & 96 that
I said I was expecting have already arrived. They were airgraphs.
Just the same the letter,
you said, that Betty had sent, containing photos of the wedding, has not
arrived yet. I received a birthday telegram from Betty this morning. That’s the
first I’ve heard from her for ages.
A good few parcels came in this morning. I didn’t
get any from you but I did get a good big one from Lovelocks. It had been
ordered & packed by David Jones & contained a large tin of Horlicks,
steak & kidney pudding, boned rabbit, sweetbreads in parsley sauce, Globex,
soups & jellies. Very nice of them wasn’t it.
Fancy John Day leaving Lovelocks. He had a good job
there & must have been offeres a good wage by Qantas to make him change.
As you say, I’ve certainly fallen down on my letter
writing. The main trouble is that there is not nearly so much to write about as
there was in the desert. Something of interest happened nearly every day in the
desert because we were on the move all the time.
Every time a parcel arrives I let you know. I don’t
think I have missed any yet. I wrote & told you that I had received the
parcel containing the mittens which were made by Ethel Harris. As a matter of
fact I wear them all the time. Unfortunately I lost the address which was
attached to them & didn’t write to thank her for them. The tin of
shortbread also arrived as I wrote & told you a long time ago.
Fred is certainly
stepping out with his beaut car. It’s good to be some people isn’t it? I may
even get myself one after all this is over & I collect my deferred pay,
which, by the way, is now worth over £95.
Thanks very much for the snaps of the wedding.
Betty looks very nice. Can’t say I like your hat very much. It sits on your
head like a pimple, Maur is certainly tall. You said that she had grown since I
left home but I didn’t think she had grown that much.
Well, Mum, that’s all for the present but I will
write again soon.
Much love to Dad, Bet
& Leo
Lovingly Yours
Frank
P.S. Enclosed money is
what we are using now with exception of Tripolitania 10 lire. 50 lire is worth
2/6 sterling (3/1 ½ Aussie).
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