back to "Camels" I shall be really better off than I expected to be.

Tommy Drew-Brook is not here yet he having got in a little "hot water" as I told you in my last letter but expect he will be sent down in a day or so.

This is quite a different sort of place to Hooton Park. It is an aerodrome that has been established for some time and is well organized and complete in every detail. There are about one hundred officers under instruction here so the mess is quite a large one and not nearly so comfortable as the Hooton Hall mess where we were like a large family and was thus somewhat homelike.

This shift has somewhat ruined my chances of doing any Xmas shopping. I wanted to get some Xmas cards and an R.F.C. crest made up as a brooch for you. I am afraid I cannot get the brooch to send it in time to reach you by Xmas but I can get the cards in Market Drayton.

Well it seems to me there is nothing I can think of to write home about outside of what I have just written so good-bye for the present with love to you both

Your affectionate son Haworth

BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.