Letter from C L Fackrell to his daughter Margaret
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Letter from C L Fackrell to his daughter Margaret
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Write that he thinks she did not receive the last letter he sent a year ago. Repeats what he wrote in that letter about his activities in the middle east and India at the Indian Military Academy. Says he now has some pictures of her and tells her about his cats.
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1944-02-01
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EFackrellHodel440101
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BY AIR MAIL
AIR MAIL LETTER CARD
[postmark]
[postage stamp]
[inserted] Rd 8/2 [/inserted]
Miss Margaret Fackrell
Milford House,
108 Main road,
SIDCUP, Kent,
England.
[censor stamp]
C.L. Fackrell
[page break]
My Darling Margaret,
It’s a whole year since I wrote to you, but I think that you didn’t receive my last letter – at any rate, Mummy has never mentioned its receipt; so I’ll tell you what I said last time – (I kept a note of the gist of it) - & you’ll be having two letters in one.
Strangely, most of the thoughts expressed a year ago are applicable again now, for I am in a similar situation (i.e. due to “move on”) - & I have as much conjecture now as then! Well, lassie, this (roughly) is what I said to you a year ago:-
“So you are 2! I can scarcely believe it but find it easier to recall this period two years ago, at your [underlined] real [/underlined] birthday. From that day I thought I was to have an unhappy time for I knew I should have to go away from Mummy & “Milford”, back to my Regiment, but I was wrong, for the 6 months after your birthday were the happiest I have ever known & I know I shall never have so happy & successful a time again.
“that brought us to Aug. 42: the
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined] next period (again of 6 months) was a very dark one, taking me away from you all, across the sea, to winter with the war in the Middle East; but a [underlined] further [/underlined] 6 months saw a change of fortune & ended in my being commissioned into the Indian Army – exactly one year after leaving my Dear Rabbit who is now (I believe) very much a tomboy!
“Six months again – (up to now) - & we find that Daddy is serving with the staff at the I.M.A. (though only as a temporary attachment) & is accepted for a position on the administration of an A.A headquarters. – now what will the next 6 months bring …..? – and will a further similar period bring me home to you? … or you to me? ….
“I have not had any photos of you lately & hope there are some on the way for I can’t imagine what you are like (tho’ I know you must be very nice).
“Be a very good girl, & always love your Mummy well, & remember that you will always be loved by your own Dadda.”
Well, girlie, we haven’t come any nearer to each other since that was written, have we? The position is now very much as it was then, save that I [underlined] have [/underlined] had some photos of you, & nice ones too – some so nice that I’ve proudly shown them to the “Lady Colonel” & she thinks [underlined] Mummy [/underlined] must be very nice-looking
[page break]
[underlined] 3 [/underlined] “’Cos she couldn’t get such sweetness from her Daddy”!
You would love my cats, my dear one – one (“Mr. Pusskins”) has become a beautiful beast, & I wish I could give him to you: I shall be sorry to lose him, as I shall have to do when I move; wish I could think of some way to travel him, but it’s not very easy in this country, where the shortest journey takes at least 4 – 6 days. I wanted to get a photo of him for you – I may yet persuade a friend to take one, - but anyway, if you just imagine the nicest pussy in the whole world – that’s him.
Bye bye, my pet – try to be good always, - and we’ll have a lovely time when I come home.
With love from your
[underlined] Dadda [/underlined]
1st. Feb. 1944.
[page break]
[ink stamp]
Written in English
Sender’s
No. 11168
Rank LIEUT.
Name FACKRELL.
AIR MAIL LETTER CARD
[postmark]
[postage stamp]
[inserted] Rd 8/2 [/inserted]
Miss Margaret Fackrell
Milford House,
108 Main road,
SIDCUP, Kent,
England.
[censor stamp]
C.L. Fackrell
[page break]
My Darling Margaret,
It’s a whole year since I wrote to you, but I think that you didn’t receive my last letter – at any rate, Mummy has never mentioned its receipt; so I’ll tell you what I said last time – (I kept a note of the gist of it) - & you’ll be having two letters in one.
Strangely, most of the thoughts expressed a year ago are applicable again now, for I am in a similar situation (i.e. due to “move on”) - & I have as much conjecture now as then! Well, lassie, this (roughly) is what I said to you a year ago:-
“So you are 2! I can scarcely believe it but find it easier to recall this period two years ago, at your [underlined] real [/underlined] birthday. From that day I thought I was to have an unhappy time for I knew I should have to go away from Mummy & “Milford”, back to my Regiment, but I was wrong, for the 6 months after your birthday were the happiest I have ever known & I know I shall never have so happy & successful a time again.
“that brought us to Aug. 42: the
[page break]
[underlined] 2 [/underlined] next period (again of 6 months) was a very dark one, taking me away from you all, across the sea, to winter with the war in the Middle East; but a [underlined] further [/underlined] 6 months saw a change of fortune & ended in my being commissioned into the Indian Army – exactly one year after leaving my Dear Rabbit who is now (I believe) very much a tomboy!
“Six months again – (up to now) - & we find that Daddy is serving with the staff at the I.M.A. (though only as a temporary attachment) & is accepted for a position on the administration of an A.A headquarters. – now what will the next 6 months bring …..? – and will a further similar period bring me home to you? … or you to me? ….
“I have not had any photos of you lately & hope there are some on the way for I can’t imagine what you are like (tho’ I know you must be very nice).
“Be a very good girl, & always love your Mummy well, & remember that you will always be loved by your own Dadda.”
Well, girlie, we haven’t come any nearer to each other since that was written, have we? The position is now very much as it was then, save that I [underlined] have [/underlined] had some photos of you, & nice ones too – some so nice that I’ve proudly shown them to the “Lady Colonel” & she thinks [underlined] Mummy [/underlined] must be very nice-looking
[page break]
[underlined] 3 [/underlined] “’Cos she couldn’t get such sweetness from her Daddy”!
You would love my cats, my dear one – one (“Mr. Pusskins”) has become a beautiful beast, & I wish I could give him to you: I shall be sorry to lose him, as I shall have to do when I move; wish I could think of some way to travel him, but it’s not very easy in this country, where the shortest journey takes at least 4 – 6 days. I wanted to get a photo of him for you – I may yet persuade a friend to take one, - but anyway, if you just imagine the nicest pussy in the whole world – that’s him.
Bye bye, my pet – try to be good always, - and we’ll have a lovely time when I come home.
With love from your
[underlined] Dadda [/underlined]
1st. Feb. 1944.
[page break]
[ink stamp]
Written in English
Sender’s
No. 11168
Rank LIEUT.
Name FACKRELL.
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Citation
C L Fackrell, “Letter from C L Fackrell to his daughter Margaret,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 27, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/26484.
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