Letter 16: June 16, 1942
Postmarked Bury Port, Camarthenshire, Wales
Can
R85176
Sgt
Piper F J
RCAF
Overseas
Attached
to No1 AGS
RAF
June
16/42
Dear
Ellen
Well I received a letter from you a
few days ago Ellen & thanks for all the news, I see that you don’t love
Outlook any more than you ever did, so you’ve almost made your mind up
on one man eh Nell.
News is about a short with me as it
is with you, things so along in the same routine as they always did.
Well
I suppose the Sports days in all the different towns will be in full swing by
now & the baseball & softball craze will be on. I sure would like to
have a game of ball again. I would sure enjoy it. I haven’t been doing any
swimming as yet, the sea shore is only about ¾ of a mile away & a lot of
the fellows have gone swimming but as yet I haven’t been down. I never was very
crazy about swimming anyhow.
My chum & I went to the wedding
last week in London of one of our Pilots, the wedding went off very good &
the bride was really nice. There was a nice reception afterwards with Holden
& I sitting close to the table with beer on.
After everything was over the two of
us got a hotel room & then went to a dance. We also spent Sunday in London
& then caught a train in evening for the camp.
There was a dance in the Sgt Mess
last week & it was a good night with everybody happy.
I was at a show t other night in
town & what a terrible show it was, it was called “Little Foxes” we walked
out in the middle of it. I had a day off yesterday & I went to a dance in
the evening.
Today I am Duty Pilot again so I get
a chance to write a few letters.
The weather had been fairly good
lately with quite a bit of flying going on.
A
Little Story
The
engineer of a train brought the train to a halt because there were two niggers
(man & woman) going at it between the rails. The engineer being very angry
jumped out of his engine & asked them why the hell they didn’t move when
they saw the train coming. “Well” Rastas replied “It was like this boss, I was
coming, she was coming & the train was coming & you was the only one
that had brakes”
My Flight Commander asked me the
other day if it would be possible for me to get some silk stockings from home
for his wife as it is damn near impossible to get them here. I told him I would
ask my sister if she would send them to me. If you send them Ellen get the
money from Dad as he has money of mine & then I’ll get the money from this
fellow. He asked if I could get five pair, size 9. If you could send me a few
chocolate bars or a little grub of some kind you could put the stockings in
with it. I hope this isn’t to much trouble for you Ellen.
I didn’t like the idea of asking you
to do it, but seeing it is the Flight Commander, well you know how it is..
You mentioned that you were sending
a parcel for my birthday & some cigarettes, they haven’t arrived as yet but
I guess they will one of these days, thanking you for everything Ellen I will
close this epistle for this time.
Hoping this finds you in the best of
health
Your loving brother
Fred
PS
Got two letters today, one from Nettie Dewar & Jay Sloan, Nettie sure is a
scream.
PS
I’m enclosing a snap of Nettie Piper, it got scratched a bit in the developing.
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