Letter from Kenneth Gill to his parents
Title
Letter from Kenneth Gill to his parents
Description
Writes that he had arrived safely at his new station and describes accommodation, food and daily transport. Speculates that he would be seeing a lot of Germany.
Creator
Date
1944-09-28
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
Two page handwritten letter and envelope
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Contributor
Identifier
SGillK1438901v30047
Transcription
[Royal Air Force badge]
OFFICERS' MESS,
ROYAL AIR FORCE STATION,
[deleted] SYERSTON [/deleted][inserted] WOODHALL SPA. [/inserted]
[deleted] NEWARK, [/deleted][inserted] LINCOLN. [/inserted]
[deleted] NOTTS. [/deleted][inserted] LINCS. [/inserted]
Sept. 28th./44.
Dear Mum & Dad,
Just a few lines to let you know I've arrived safely at my new station.
As I said before it's a large hotel where we live and the quarters are quite comfortable; the food is quite good and there seems to be plenty of entertainment.
We have transport to take us to work and back every day so we shouldn't do too badly.
I expect we'll have quite a bit of flying to do before we do any "ops" so I don't see us
[page break]
2/
being very idle this next week. As Germany is about the only place left now I expect we'll see quite a lot of it again but I'm not particularly worried about that.
Well I can't think of any more to say now so I'll close and write again as soon as I can.
Keep well and smiling I'll be alright here so don't worry.
Goodnight & God Bless,
Your Loving Son,
Ken [kisses]
David [kisses]
[page break]
[Stamp and postmark]
Mr. & Mrs. K Gill.
55, Kyffin Avenue,
Halton
Leeds.
Yorkshire.
OFFICERS' MESS,
ROYAL AIR FORCE STATION,
[deleted] SYERSTON [/deleted][inserted] WOODHALL SPA. [/inserted]
[deleted] NEWARK, [/deleted][inserted] LINCOLN. [/inserted]
[deleted] NOTTS. [/deleted][inserted] LINCS. [/inserted]
Sept. 28th./44.
Dear Mum & Dad,
Just a few lines to let you know I've arrived safely at my new station.
As I said before it's a large hotel where we live and the quarters are quite comfortable; the food is quite good and there seems to be plenty of entertainment.
We have transport to take us to work and back every day so we shouldn't do too badly.
I expect we'll have quite a bit of flying to do before we do any "ops" so I don't see us
[page break]
2/
being very idle this next week. As Germany is about the only place left now I expect we'll see quite a lot of it again but I'm not particularly worried about that.
Well I can't think of any more to say now so I'll close and write again as soon as I can.
Keep well and smiling I'll be alright here so don't worry.
Goodnight & God Bless,
Your Loving Son,
Ken [kisses]
David [kisses]
[page break]
[Stamp and postmark]
Mr. & Mrs. K Gill.
55, Kyffin Avenue,
Halton
Leeds.
Yorkshire.
Collection
Citation
K Gill, “Letter from Kenneth Gill to his parents,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/35711.
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