Letter to Wally Layne's wife from the Red Cross

Letter to Wally Layne's wife from the Red Cross

Informs her that no news had been received concerning her husband.

1943-09-30

One typewritten letter

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WAR ORGANISATION RAF/A.2.
OF THE
BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY and ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM

[red cross crest] President : HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. Grand prior : H.R.H. THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER. K.G. [order of St John crest]

[underlined] WOUNDED, MISSING AND RELATIVES DEPARTMENT [/underlined]
Chairman :
THE DOWAGER LADY AMPTHILL, C.I., G.B.E.

TELEPHONE NO. : SLOANE 9696 In replying please quote reference : DB/MHD RAF/C.19062 7 BELGRAVE SQUARE, LONDON, S.W.1

30th September, 1943.

Dear Mrs. Layne,

We have received your enquiry in which you ask for news of Warrant Officer W.H. Layne 963102.

We are sorry to tell you that no information has been received about him up to the present, but all possible enquiries are being made. Any news which may be forthcoming from the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva or from any other source, will be passed to you immediately. If, however, you are the registered next-of-kin, your first notification will come from the Air Ministry.

Yours sincerely,
[signature] Margaret Ampthill [/signature] PP DB Chairman.

Mrs. A.J. Layne,
97, Harlaxton Road,
Grantham.