Letter to the Chief Postals Officer

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Title

Letter to the Chief Postals Officer

Description

The letter from RCAF Toronto refers to an enquiry from Sam McCron's widow. She had written to RCAF Toronto to find out the circumstances of her husband's death and what had happened to mail she had sent to her husband.

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Date

1944-12-15

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Format

One typewritten sheet

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EMcNabJChPostOff441215

Transcription

[crest]

[inserted] R191097 [/inserted]

OUR FILE - 60-2-56
REF. YOUR
DATED

ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
1944 DEC 16 AM 10:16
TORONTO, Ontario, 15th December, 1944

[inserted] D of P [/inserted]

The Secretary,
Dept. of National Defence for Air,
Lisgar Building,
OTTAWA, Ontario.

[underlined] Attention: Chief Postals Officer [/underlined]

[underlined] McCRON, Samuel Lorne Wilfred, Sgt., R.191097, Killed overseas Nov. 13 [/underlined]
Next-of-kin: Mrs. S.L.W. McCron, 1339 Crawford Ave., Fort William, Ont. (Wife)

1. The wife of the above noted deceased airman has written to us making inquiry with regard to her correspondence to her husband.

2. The text of her letter follows and it would appear to be of such a nature that we trust some investigation will be made and a satisfactory reply forwarded to her.

"I got your letter today and want to thank you. Do you think it's possible to find out how the death of my husband happened. I can't understand how it happened and I have had no word from Ottawa except the telegram. I would like to know just how my husband was killed, was it an accident? Then perhaps you can also tell me why my husband did not receive my mail or parcels for eight weeks. The other boys got theirs and my husband received letters from other friends but mine were well taken care of so that my husband never received them, why? I'll never know, could you perhaps tell me. I wrote to him [underlined] every [/underlined] day and yet he never received them. Do you suppose someone was destroying them? But for what reason? I'd be grateful if you could find out and let me know. Nothing matters now that my husband is gone but the least I could do for him is find out (if I can) what was holding up my letters to him. Hoping to hear from you soon and thank you. Yours truly, Mrs. Lorne McCron"

[signature]
(John McNab) G/C,
C. Chap. (P),
for A.O.C., No. 1 T.C.

R.C.A.F. G. 32
2000M-3-44 (3888)
H.Q. 885-G-32

Citation

RCAF Toronto, “Letter to the Chief Postals Officer,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 19, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/36188.

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