Letter from David Boldy to his mother

Letter from David Boldy to his mother

Letter from David Boldy to his mother thanking her for the good time he had during his recent leave. He speaks about a bombing attack that had happened at a nearby station and mentions that he is enjoying his social life and finds his current training very interesting.

1940-08-21

Two page handwritten letter

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[deleted] 923995 LAC BOLDY D.A.
D Flight, No 3 Squadron,
No 5, I.T.W.
R.A.F. Torquay,
21st August 1940. [/deleted]

[inserted] from
Boldy
59, Bathurst Mews
Lancaster Gate,
London, W.2. [/inserted]

Mum darling,

Just in case my last letter did not reach you as someone else posted it, thanks very much again for the awfully good Time I had during my leave. [inserted] (The last letter reached me but the paper is [indecipherable word]). [/inserted]

I am glad I phoned you both from the fact I had not felt so well on Saturday & then also about the bombing of a S.W. Town you must have read about. It happened a couple of stations away. One of our chaps was on a bridge when a bomb fell a few yards away and he was blown clean off his feet though quite unhurt. The ramparts of the bridge saved him. He was also machin [sic] gunned.

After two really quiet days the old [deleted] dog [/deleted] D Flight spirit came back with a vengeance to-day. We had a real lark about to-day. The Flight Sergeant drilled us to-day & went through practically everything we had done. He was very pleased with

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the results.

I thouroughly [sic] enjoyed navigation today. We had some stuff about intercepting enemy planes & after I understood it, it was very interesting.

This evening I had some very enjoyable Tennis with some rather good players. After it an old gentleman took us into his hotel and gave us coffee and buscuits. [sic] Some of us had very short pants especially one chap & some of the people at the hotel looked quite shocked. I may have my racket restrung for a pound. I can just about afford it on my present pay.

Incidentally we had a three minute air-raid warning these [sic] morning. We thought we'd miss some work but were disappointed.

No more to-day. God bless you.

[underlined] Love Dave. [/underlined]