Letter to RT Black's Wife from Group Captain Lloyd

Letter to RT Black's Wife from Group Captain Lloyd

The writer expresses regret that her husband is missing in action.

1939-12-24

One typewritten sheet

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ELloydHPBlack[Mrs]391224

Headquarters,
Bomber Command,
c/o G.P.O.
Slough Bucks.
24th December, 1939.

Dear Mrs Black,
I am very sorry indeed to hear that your husband is missing. It is sad. I am so sorry for you. May I offer you my deepest sympathy at this very sad and anxious time.

I was commanding your husbands Squadron until a few weeks ago and I knew him very well. He was a splendid man, and I hoped one day to see him as a pilot and he would have done that extremely well as he was full of courage. He was very popular and one of the best of our air-gunners; I would have gone [missing word/s] and would have felt safe with him anywhere behind me. He was also a first-class man on his aeroplane and we will find it so diificult [sic] to replace the likes of him.

It is very distressing , and it is so disrtessing [sic] to see my friends leavung [sic] the Squadron like this.

Yours very sincerely,
H.P.Lloyd
Group Captain.

Mrs R.T. Black
8, The Pightle,
Haverhill,
Suffolk.