Letter to Brian Walley's Parents from Brian

Letter to Brian Walley's Parents from Brian

He has many letters from home. He complains that Mair has only sent 10 letters in 21 months. Camp activities are water polo, vegetable gardening and theatre. He talks about going to Australia to check farming.

1943-08-15

One double sided handwritten postal sheet

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[underlined] Kriegsgefangenenpost [/underlined]

Mr & Mrs F.G. WALLEY,
“HAFRYN”
CORWEN,
MERIONETHSHIRE,
NORTH WALES,
GT. BRITAIN

[two ink stamps]

Sgt Brian Walley
90076 (80)
M,-Stammlager 383

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[underlined] Aug – 15 – 1943. [/underlined]

My dear all, quite a good fortnight for mail; I had a letter from Honor, 1 from Uncle Allen, 1 from Granny, 2 from Pop and 3 from Ma. As I can’t thank everyone for Birthday presents and wishes individually at this stage I would be pleased if you would do the necessary for me in that line. I am afraid Mair is not up to much as a correspondent, I have only had 10 letters from her in the whole 21 months of my detention (a good word that). The water-polo league is going well, our team has not been beaten yet. The garden is doing extremely well, what with lettuce and onions etc. We had a photo taken of some produce and I hope to send you a copy next time. The latest production in the Theatre is Emlyn William’s play “Night must Fall.” It was extremely well produced. Incidently [sic] the leading actor is in our barack. [sic] I think, after a goodly stay at home, I will definitely take a trip to Australia and see what prospects are offered for farming – As a profession in England, farming is out of the question, I hope Pop won’t mind giving me, say a year, to make my mind up – Lots of Love to all Brian xxx