Another letter from Calshot on RAF header, without a date. FX 83787
C 4 Hut RN Unit Eaglehurst Camp RAF Station Calshot Hants Dear Mother, Thanks a lot for you parcel which arrived this morning. Wonder of wonders an ‘Orange’. I slowly ate it in front of every chap in the hut. Boy they looked as if they where going to knock me down. The mag’s too, where very welcome, as I have nothing to read. As for leave, if I do get any I’ll not have much chance to warn you, as its a thing here, which they pop on us sudden like. It’s quite a habit of their’s, to give only two hours notice. You see we don’t know when we will be drafted and that mucks things up a lot. I’m glad to hear that you back at your job and that you are better. I’ve a job here which is the goods. Watch keepers job, fours hours on eight off. It’s all right. I popped over to Lee on Solent last Sunday to see the blond I used to go around with, you rember. Well I was eight hours late getting back as I missed the train, thus ‘Jimmy the one’ (that’s the first leut) gave me three days pay stopped, three days leave stopped and three No 11 (No 11 is 2 hours work each night, half an hours work dinner time and getting up half an hour before the others). This is called ‘three and three’. We get ‘three and three’ for every 3 hours we are adrift. How is Mrs Jones getting on? Is she out of hospital yet. Tell her I hope she is feeling alright. Yesterday I spent the afternoon in the cook-house, peeling apples. It was almost like knitting. ‘Peel one, eat one’. You can understand how I felt after two hours of this, my pinny was like a drum. Has Phil still got that cat I brought young Anne. I bet she’s lost it. I’ll aint half be mad if she has, after carting it all that way. Well thanks again once more for that parcel, all the boys at the moment are reading the comic and there’s a waiting list yet to read it. It will have been well in use by the time its finished with. Well cheerio for now All my love David Comments are closed.
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David SaundersBorn July 31st 1923 Topics
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