From Andrew to Isabel
Title
From Andrew to Isabel
Description
An aerogram from Andrew training in South Africa. He has just been posted to no. 45 Air School. Some of her letters seem to have gone missing.
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Date
1942-06-25
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Format
One aerogram letter
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Identifier
EBainABainID420625
Transcription
MISS. I. D. AITCHISON,
31, STIRLING DRIVE
BURNSIDE,
RUTHERGLEN,
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
Sender's Address: N [/underlined] O [/underlined] 45, AIR SCHOOL,
OUTSHOORN, CAPE PROVINCE, S. A.
Date: 25/6/42
Dear Isabel,
This is my new address and I shall be there when I next write to you. Jack is going to East London which is a great disappointment to both of us but we hope to meet there later as I shall have to go there to finish my course. At the moment I am entirely on my own for friends. I received your first cable just [deleted] before [/deleted] after I posted last week's airgraph and your second two days ago but, unlike most other boys I have received no more letters so dear knows what has happened to any written between 13/4/42 and 30/4/42. Perhaps they will turn up, I'll keep hoping. Thanks a lot for the cables, so glad to know you are getting my letters and I presume you also meant airgraphs. I spent last week end at the Halliday's in Joburg again but could not contact Bill. On Monday I received a letter from him saying that he had been posted away to Cape Town. I shall keep in contact with him because I hope to be in Cape Town before I leave this country. I met a Scots couple with a little girl of 12 in Pretoria two nights ago and accepted an invitation to spend last night with them. Very quiet but quite enjoyable. I passed my exams here this week successfully. I continue to keep well and was glad to hear you are doing likewise.
Yours, Andy.
31, STIRLING DRIVE
BURNSIDE,
RUTHERGLEN,
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
Sender's Address: N [/underlined] O [/underlined] 45, AIR SCHOOL,
OUTSHOORN, CAPE PROVINCE, S. A.
Date: 25/6/42
Dear Isabel,
This is my new address and I shall be there when I next write to you. Jack is going to East London which is a great disappointment to both of us but we hope to meet there later as I shall have to go there to finish my course. At the moment I am entirely on my own for friends. I received your first cable just [deleted] before [/deleted] after I posted last week's airgraph and your second two days ago but, unlike most other boys I have received no more letters so dear knows what has happened to any written between 13/4/42 and 30/4/42. Perhaps they will turn up, I'll keep hoping. Thanks a lot for the cables, so glad to know you are getting my letters and I presume you also meant airgraphs. I spent last week end at the Halliday's in Joburg again but could not contact Bill. On Monday I received a letter from him saying that he had been posted away to Cape Town. I shall keep in contact with him because I hope to be in Cape Town before I leave this country. I met a Scots couple with a little girl of 12 in Pretoria two nights ago and accepted an invitation to spend last night with them. Very quiet but quite enjoyable. I passed my exams here this week successfully. I continue to keep well and was glad to hear you are doing likewise.
Yours, Andy.
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Citation
Andrew Bain, “From Andrew to Isabel,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 24, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/16760.
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