David probably returned to Calshot around September 1942. His first letter from there has a Devenport header on it, but the next has an RAF logo. Calshot is an RAF station, Eaglehurst Camp. As the letters state, having completed his training at Dunoon, David is now part of Combined Ops. FX 83787 C4 Hut RN Unit Eaglehurst Camp RAF station Calshot Hants Dear Mum, Well once more they have been an gorn and shoved me around to a new camp, deep in the heart of Hants. It’s taken us over 28 hours to get here, starting from last Sunday. It’s a better camp all around than the last one, but it’s a dam disamel hole just the same. The grubs very good here, WAAF being the cooks. For breakfast we had – Prunes, bread and butter, ham – fried bread and tea. Dinner – veg soup. Steak and kidney pudding, greens, potatoes and gravy, with rice and apple for the sweet. Not so bad eh? ]We are to be issued with a new badge. It has a bit of everything in it. A eagle for the RAF, tommy gun for the army and a badge anchor for us. Thus the combined operations badge [image] Boy was I glad to leave Scotland. It rained every day we were there and mud everywhere. I might get leave some time if, IF!! I’m lucky, so don’t count on it. Coming down on the train we spent more time in the sidings than going anywhere. From London to Scotland going up was not so bad, but coming down was a nightmare. Every five minutes someone would pop his head in the door and count us like a lot of sheep. About 12 o clock I was in the mood to kill the next subby of ours who poped in. Lucky he didn’t. We are under RAF jurisdiction down here and it looks as if some trouble will start soon, but don’t worry, Jack can look after himself against any Brylcream boy. [scratched out/censored sentence] By the way, we have a strange sight here. It’s a old railway which runs round the camp. It’s the daftest thing you have seen. It’s more like a toy and a very old man drives it.
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