Dreams of Things That Were

The Wartime Correspondence of Harry William Manchester

Tag: Peg[gy]

Artifact 1940-11-05 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman

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Editor One

Jan 10, 2022

Last Modified:

January 22, 2022

in 1940, Aldershot, Elton Newman, Essex, Essex Scottish Regiment, Frances Newman, Jimmie Tweedale, Kitchen, Letter, Louie Clifford, Military Police, Orderly Room, Pat Burling, Peggy

Air Raid, bender, death of Pat Burling, Elton [Newman], Gerries [Germans], Gerry [Germans], Jim [the Corporal of police], Jimmie Tweedale, Louie Clifford, over flight, Pat Burling, Peg[gy], sister, the Kiddies

“But a Gerry just flew over & he was real low.”
Artifact 1940-10-31 – Letter to Mrs. Elton Newman

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Editor One

Jan 7, 2022

Last Modified:

January 22, 2022

in 1940, Aldershot, Elton Newman, Frances Newman, Glen Piper, Jason Manchester, Jimmie Tweedale, La Verne Woods (née Manchester), Letter, Newspaper Article, Peggy

{Windsor] Star, Aldershot, cigarette post card, Elton Newman, father, Glen Piper, illness, Jason Manchester, Jimmie Tweedale, La Verne Woods, money, Peg[gy], School teacher pushing boxcar, wife

“Piper is okay. Only we still nagg the devil out of him”