Letter from Ron Witty to his mother, father and siblings

Letter from Ron Witty to his mother, father and siblings

Notes that he has now moved to Collondale which is still near East London. Writes that some mail had now caught up with him and that he had recently spent spare time writing to everyone. Says that had completed arrival process and were ready to get down to some hard work.

1943-03-29

One page handwritten letter

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MR. & MRS. H.A. WITTY,
63 FARNDALE AVENUE,
SOUTHCOATES LANE,
HULL,
YORKS.,
ENGLAND.
520463
Sender’s Name and Address: 1520694 L.A.C. WITTY A.R.,
12 A.H. COURSE,
41 AIR SCHOOL,
COLLONDALE,
EAST LONDON, SOUTH AFRICA.
Date: 29/3/43
Airgraph No.1.
Dear Mum, Dad, Hazel, & Norman,
I hope you will note the new address. I arrived here from 48 Air School on Saturday. I believe I mentioned in my last airgraph that I hadn’t received many airgraphs from you just recently, but thought it was because they had been sent on to 41 Air School. Well, I called at the 41 Air School post office today and there found 4 Airgraphs waiting to be collected. 2 were from No. 63 and 2 from Dad. I was [underlined] very [/underlined] please to see them. By the way during my last week at Woodbrook I had plenty of time to spare for once so I wrote one airgraph to everyone I could think of. I sent one to each of Aunt Elly, grandma, Peter & Andy, besides those to you four, & Walter (Suddaby).
I think I shall have a good time here although we have been warned that there is a great deal of work to get through. We have got through the bulk of the routine matters consequent on arrival at a new station and are just about to start work again.
I am still spending my Sundays at the Smyth’s and earned [deleted] to [/deleted] my “keep” yesterday, I think, by doing a spot of pruning. It was rather a tough job but at the same time a pleasant change.
Cheerio,
Ron XXXXXX
(Continued on 2nd airgraph)