Hearty congratulations
Title
Hearty congratulations
Description
Douglas is sent congratulations on his award and news of friends.
Creator
Date
1943-06-12
Temporal Coverage
Spatial Coverage
Language
Format
One envelope and two handwritten sheets
Publisher
Rights
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Contributor
Identifier
EMaynellDKnoxVD430612-0001;EMaynellDKnoxVD4306120002; EMaynellDKnoxVD430612-0003;EMaynellDKnoxVD430612-0004
Transcription
Envelope
[postmark] W.Hartlepool 5.15 PM 13 June 1943 [postmark]
[postage stamp]
Flight – Lieut. V D Knox,
[deleted]
The hook,
East Haxby,
Nr Northallerton
[/deleted]
20 Green Dykes Lane
[underlined] York [/underlined]
[underlined] Yorks [/underlined]
[page break]
[postmark] E.Hartlepool 15 [indecipherable] 43 [/postmark]
2 Chatham Rd.
West Hartlepool
12 – 6- 43
My dear Doug,
Frist and foremost hearty congratulations from all of us on your splendid award. We are all very proud to know you. I have written to tell Denis & Alan & and I know they will be delighted too. Goodness knows when Alan will get the news as he is on the move again. He has been in Heliopolis a considerable time, & while there contacted his pal Jack Hildreth who is in the tank Corps. They were very fortunate indeed to meet at all out there as Jack was only in Egypt little more than a fortnight before being moved on to Palestine.
Have you heard the news about Denis? He is the proud father of a bouncing baby boy – born May 30th. The christening takes place tomorrow & the last name mentioned was Terence Paul (nobody here likes it but as it is their baby they please themselves) but as each succeeding letter has contained a different name, we will be able to tell you later. I don’t think there
[page break]
Is any need to tell you how thrilled he is about it – he was always potty over children - & [underlined] we [/underlined] are just as bad. Our only grumble is that they are so far away from home.
As I expect you will know, Maurice and Elsa are home on leave & they both look splendid.
Do you know Bill Best, or Arthur Best as his real name is? He is home from Gibraltar – just arrived on Tuesday - & has been here to supper tonight. He is “grounded” for 6 months having done 530 hours with Coastal Command. By the way I am writing this at 1.15 am Sunday, patiently waiting for Dad to return form a Home Guard exercise. Next week and he is going to camp.
Denis [underlined] & family [underlined] are coming up for a fortnight in August. My, but I’m looking forward to that. Oh I forgot to tell you before. Alan’s address now is British North Africa Force [scoring out] instead of M.E.F. And now wishing you all the luck in the world.
I remain
Yours Sincerely
D. Maynell.
[postmark] W.Hartlepool 5.15 PM 13 June 1943 [postmark]
[postage stamp]
Flight – Lieut. V D Knox,
[deleted]
The hook,
East Haxby,
Nr Northallerton
[/deleted]
20 Green Dykes Lane
[underlined] York [/underlined]
[underlined] Yorks [/underlined]
[page break]
[postmark] E.Hartlepool 15 [indecipherable] 43 [/postmark]
2 Chatham Rd.
West Hartlepool
12 – 6- 43
My dear Doug,
Frist and foremost hearty congratulations from all of us on your splendid award. We are all very proud to know you. I have written to tell Denis & Alan & and I know they will be delighted too. Goodness knows when Alan will get the news as he is on the move again. He has been in Heliopolis a considerable time, & while there contacted his pal Jack Hildreth who is in the tank Corps. They were very fortunate indeed to meet at all out there as Jack was only in Egypt little more than a fortnight before being moved on to Palestine.
Have you heard the news about Denis? He is the proud father of a bouncing baby boy – born May 30th. The christening takes place tomorrow & the last name mentioned was Terence Paul (nobody here likes it but as it is their baby they please themselves) but as each succeeding letter has contained a different name, we will be able to tell you later. I don’t think there
[page break]
Is any need to tell you how thrilled he is about it – he was always potty over children - & [underlined] we [/underlined] are just as bad. Our only grumble is that they are so far away from home.
As I expect you will know, Maurice and Elsa are home on leave & they both look splendid.
Do you know Bill Best, or Arthur Best as his real name is? He is home from Gibraltar – just arrived on Tuesday - & has been here to supper tonight. He is “grounded” for 6 months having done 530 hours with Coastal Command. By the way I am writing this at 1.15 am Sunday, patiently waiting for Dad to return form a Home Guard exercise. Next week and he is going to camp.
Denis [underlined] & family [underlined] are coming up for a fortnight in August. My, but I’m looking forward to that. Oh I forgot to tell you before. Alan’s address now is British North Africa Force [scoring out] instead of M.E.F. And now wishing you all the luck in the world.
I remain
Yours Sincerely
D. Maynell.
Collection
Citation
D Meynell, “Hearty congratulations,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed December 6, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/55040.