Letter from Spencer Lewis Belton to his father
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Letter from Spencer Lewis Belton to his father
Description
Letter from Sergeant Spencer Lewis Belton to his father. Refers to air raids in Wales, weather, leave, crops, visit to cinema, a death in the cinema and finally a comment about a piece of shrapnel that bruised his ribs, reported in Monday’s 'Mirror'. Reverse of envelope is annotated ‘76 bus at Bank to Victoria Station’.
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1940-07-24
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Two page handwritten letter with envelope
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E[Author]BeltonSLS410524-01
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[underlined] On His Majesty’s Service [/underlined]
[postmark]
S. Belton Esq.
Lodge Farm,
FOULNESS,
Southend on Sea.
[page break]
Sgts Mess,
R.A.F. Hemswell
Lincoln. 24/4/40.
Dear Dad,
Thanks for your letter. There are two or three boys here from S. Wales & they say there are a lot of raids there. Yes I think I shall get six days in August but I still don’t know which exactly. We have had some terrific thunderstorms & very heavy downpours but it has been fine for the last few days. There is a piece of peas out near here but I haven’t seen any corn yet. There is some barley getting
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quite ripe near too. But I don’t go up in the daytime very often so I don’t see much. I went to Lincoln to the pictures last night and I didn’t meet any of my old pals. There was someone died in the pictures with a horrible yell — nearly like Tarzan only not quite so loud. I am enclosing piece of shrapnel that hit me in the ribs Saturday night. You can see a piece of my harness sticking to it. I will bring home the thing that stopped it when I come home next. If you look on the front of Monday’s “Mirror” you will see a little piece about it. I have a nice bruise on my ribs.
Love from Lewis
[page break]
76 Bus at Bank
To Victoria Station
[postmark]
S. Belton Esq.
Lodge Farm,
FOULNESS,
Southend on Sea.
[page break]
Sgts Mess,
R.A.F. Hemswell
Lincoln. 24/4/40.
Dear Dad,
Thanks for your letter. There are two or three boys here from S. Wales & they say there are a lot of raids there. Yes I think I shall get six days in August but I still don’t know which exactly. We have had some terrific thunderstorms & very heavy downpours but it has been fine for the last few days. There is a piece of peas out near here but I haven’t seen any corn yet. There is some barley getting
[page break]
quite ripe near too. But I don’t go up in the daytime very often so I don’t see much. I went to Lincoln to the pictures last night and I didn’t meet any of my old pals. There was someone died in the pictures with a horrible yell — nearly like Tarzan only not quite so loud. I am enclosing piece of shrapnel that hit me in the ribs Saturday night. You can see a piece of my harness sticking to it. I will bring home the thing that stopped it when I come home next. If you look on the front of Monday’s “Mirror” you will see a little piece about it. I have a nice bruise on my ribs.
Love from Lewis
[page break]
76 Bus at Bank
To Victoria Station
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Citation
Spencer Lewis Belton, “Letter from Spencer Lewis Belton to his father,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 18, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/779.
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