Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Title
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Description
He has had no mail this week. His friend, Bill has had mail and cigarettes. His health and spirits are good. He is planning a reunion of prisoners of war at home.
Creator
Date
1943-07-27
Temporal Coverage
Spatial Coverage
Coverage
Format
One double sided printed sheet with handwritten annotations
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Rights
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Contributor
Identifier
EPickfordLPickfordA430727-0001, EPickfordLPickfordA430727-0002
Transcription
27 LUG 1943 XXII
Dear Ma, I have not received any mail this week, so I must have had my quota last week. Bill, however has been more fortunate, receiving a second copy of his families photograph, and a parcel of 500, cigarettes from Mr Hobson. He is rightly writting [sic] his letter in acknowledgement today. He will be greateful [sic] if you will forward the above information to his mother, and say wed’s card will follow. We are both in the best of health, and spirits hoping all relations are in similar straits. One of the lads here had been enquiring about the hiring of a small hall for reunion Party purposes, and I surjested [sic] that we amalgamate in the idea. We have planned to invite about seventy guests and make it a family reunion and a twenty-first for myself at the same time. Mrs. Thompson has about twenty five, Bill Six and my own family, Norman’s, Nellie’s and Dorothy’s and Aunt Fanny’s. We will make finale arangements [sic] on arrival at home. The weather here is still good with another six or seven weeks continued good weather to look forward to.
Your Loving Son Leslie.
[page break]
[inserted] Received 18th/43 [/inserted]
[crest] [underlined] Posta di prigioniero di guerra [/underlined]
BY AIR MAIL. VIA ROMA – LISBON.
Al Mrs Annie Pickford
41 Broadlea Road Kingsway
Burnage Manchester Lanc’s
England
[page break]
[rubber stamp]
Non scrivete su questa facciata
Do not write on this side
N’écrivez pas sur ce côté
Mittente: Casato, nome e grado PICKFORD
Sender: Surname, name and rank LESLIE
Expéditeur: Prénom, nom el grade SGT. 551653.
Campo P.G.78. P.M.3300 ITALIA.
VERIFIOATO PER CENSURE [rubber stamp]
Dear Ma, I have not received any mail this week, so I must have had my quota last week. Bill, however has been more fortunate, receiving a second copy of his families photograph, and a parcel of 500, cigarettes from Mr Hobson. He is rightly writting [sic] his letter in acknowledgement today. He will be greateful [sic] if you will forward the above information to his mother, and say wed’s card will follow. We are both in the best of health, and spirits hoping all relations are in similar straits. One of the lads here had been enquiring about the hiring of a small hall for reunion Party purposes, and I surjested [sic] that we amalgamate in the idea. We have planned to invite about seventy guests and make it a family reunion and a twenty-first for myself at the same time. Mrs. Thompson has about twenty five, Bill Six and my own family, Norman’s, Nellie’s and Dorothy’s and Aunt Fanny’s. We will make finale arangements [sic] on arrival at home. The weather here is still good with another six or seven weeks continued good weather to look forward to.
Your Loving Son Leslie.
[page break]
[inserted] Received 18th/43 [/inserted]
[crest] [underlined] Posta di prigioniero di guerra [/underlined]
BY AIR MAIL. VIA ROMA – LISBON.
Al Mrs Annie Pickford
41 Broadlea Road Kingsway
Burnage Manchester Lanc’s
England
[page break]
[rubber stamp]
Non scrivete su questa facciata
Do not write on this side
N’écrivez pas sur ce côté
Mittente: Casato, nome e grado PICKFORD
Sender: Surname, name and rank LESLIE
Expéditeur: Prénom, nom el grade SGT. 551653.
Campo P.G.78. P.M.3300 ITALIA.
VERIFIOATO PER CENSURE [rubber stamp]
Collection
Citation
Leslie Pickford, “Letter from Les Pickford to his mother,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed November 7, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/42393.