Letter to Joan Wareing from G Gouter
Title
Letter to Joan Wareing from G Gouter
Description
Letter of sympathy for her missing husband and mentions worries over conditions encountered by soldiers in Normandy.
Creator
Date
1944-08-27
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
Two page handwritten letter
Publisher
Rights
This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.
Contributor
Identifier
EGouterGWareingJ440827
Transcription
Start of transcription
TEL. 2112. “KISTOR,”
11, HILL CREST AVENUE,
MARKET HARBOROUGH.
27th August 1944
Dear Mrs Wareing,
Thank you very much for your letter, which I was pleased receive a short time ago. I am sorry I did not answer it before, but I am afraid private letters have to be left.
I have only just heard the sad news that your husband is “missing”. I do not know how to express our
[page break]
Sympathy to you, for I know you must be feeling very sad & lonely. But I do want you to know that your friends are thinking about you, and “feeling” for you.
Yes, these are sad and worrying days for many people. My boy is out in Normandy, and I can assure you he is in my thoughts night and day. I do not like to think of these boys having no cover either night or day, wet or fine, and I think it is awful for them to have to sleep in the open fields, with no protection even in a thunderstorm.
Well! Please accept our sympathy in your sad time. Yours sincerely G. Gouter.
End of transcription
TEL. 2112. “KISTOR,”
11, HILL CREST AVENUE,
MARKET HARBOROUGH.
27th August 1944
Dear Mrs Wareing,
Thank you very much for your letter, which I was pleased receive a short time ago. I am sorry I did not answer it before, but I am afraid private letters have to be left.
I have only just heard the sad news that your husband is “missing”. I do not know how to express our
[page break]
Sympathy to you, for I know you must be feeling very sad & lonely. But I do want you to know that your friends are thinking about you, and “feeling” for you.
Yes, these are sad and worrying days for many people. My boy is out in Normandy, and I can assure you he is in my thoughts night and day. I do not like to think of these boys having no cover either night or day, wet or fine, and I think it is awful for them to have to sleep in the open fields, with no protection even in a thunderstorm.
Well! Please accept our sympathy in your sad time. Yours sincerely G. Gouter.
End of transcription
Collection
Citation
G Gouter, “Letter to Joan Wareing from G Gouter,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed July 22, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/27841.
Item Relations
This item has no relations.