Letter from Jimmy Doughty to his sister Winnie

Letter from Jimmy Doughty to his sister Winnie

General gossip and catching up with news of friends. (Eric training in Canada). Tells story of boss eyed work mate.

1943-02-02

Two page handwritten letter

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EDoughtyJCDoughtyW430202

49, Tavistock Gardens
Ilford,
Essex

2-2-‘43

Dear Ex- Rookie,

Glad to hear you are enjoying yourself in Bradford (at least I gather so from other peoples’ letters).

I have no news for you, so from now on you will read (or will you?) a load of tripe.

We received an airagraph [sic] from Eric, he’s in Canada and seems to be enjoying him self out there. He meet [sic] Less out there (Chap at Hughes), and he was 4 weeks from getting his wings, when they took him off a pilots course and put him on a bomb-aimers course.

(That was an after thought, now for real tripe)

Sorry you haven’t received the other 7 letters a week I’ve sent you, at

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least you don’t appear to have, by the total lack of replies I’ve had.

Chap working facing me is boss-eyed and its darn awkward he stands & talks & you can’t tell weather [sic] he’s speaking to you or a guy round the corner.

When he first came he looked at the job asked [deleted] wh [/deleted] how many a day we had to produce, I told him, and he said jam (do 6 a day).

Having spent the last 3 days finding empty bins to put his scrap in, he now visibly shakes when he starts in the morning, [deleted] mab [/deleted] may be he see’s twice at much scrap at [sic] we do, but when he has a job past (say in ’44) he will see twice as many, and that helps to even things up a bit.

I am [deleted] to [/deleted] now feverishly biting nails and tearing hair will this unacustomed [sic] mental strain so I end. (as you will discover)

Best of Luck Win,

[underlined] Jim (LITTLE ONE). [/underlined]