Letter from Jack Darby to his Wife

Letter from Jack Darby to his Wife

He thanks her for her letter and parcel. He and his friend went into York to watch a film. They have refurnished their hut with items borrowed from other huts.

1945-10-22

Two double sided handwritten sheets and envelope

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Mrs Darby,
7. Queens Drive
Surbiton
Surrey

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F/o J. Darby, 154676
R.A.F. Station
Acaster Malbis,
nr York.
Yorks

Sunday.

My darling,

Thanks so much for your letter and the parcel with sweets and fruit, can tell you the Mess did’nt last long.

Well my turn as orderly officer went off O.K, no trouble [deleted] of [/deleted] or complaints, I finished 9 AM on Friday. In the evening Bill and I went into York, saw “The Hidden Eye” and The True Glory, the latter was extremely good and

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we thoroughly enjoyed the programme, after it was over we set course for the Officers Club and had a good supper.

Saturday afternoon we cycled to York, had a look round the shops, went to the pictures again, this time saw The Enchanted Cottage. The next thing on our programme was something to eat, must’nt miss my cup of tea! To finish the evening we decided to see what the locals were like, we did very well, just half a pint in each, have now a good

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idea how the land lies.

After getting up about 11.45 this morning we had lunch and as it was a rotten day, raining hard etc we spent a happy afternoon making our hut more habitable by looting all the empty huts, we’ve got rid of some beds in our hut, pinched two nice chairs, a [deleted] poker [/deleted] poker, coal scuttle, axe, door mat, two mirrors, from various huts, also a large supply of wood, paper coal and coke so we should get a little warmth. later on.

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I don’t know if I shall be able to get down next weekend as we are having 450 aircrew in, we shall be fairly busy, especially if they are posted out in a day or so, however will know something later on.

Well, my darling, I’m missing you very much, especially at night, not used to being without my ‘hot water bottle’

Hope Mother and Dad are getting better, please give my love to them.

Cheerio for the moment,

All my love darling

Your loving husband

Jack