Dreams of Things That Were

The Wartime Correspondence of Harry William Manchester

Tag: First Div[ision]

Artifact 1940-09-13 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman

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Editor One

Apr 26, 2020

Last Modified:

January 22, 2022

in 1940, Aldershot, Aunt Clara, Dot [Dorothy] Sweetman, Elton Newman, Gladys, Letter, London, Onnellee Reive, Pearl, Rita [Pearl’s sister], Ruthven

Air Raid, Aldershot, Aunt Clara, Brigade H.Q., C.B., cigarettes, Colonel, convoy, cows, Detention, Dot, Elton, England, First Div[ision], fruit cake, Kiddies, London, machine gun, major, motorcycle, Onn[ellee], Pearl, Regiment, Rita, sniper, United Kingdom

“We had an air raid first thing this morn. to start the day off. It seemed so funny yesterday We didn’t have on raid all day long.”