AEROPLANE EXPERIMENTAL STATION, MARTLESHAM HEATH, NR WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK.

Jan 9, 1919.

Dear Mother

I am afraid it is some time since I have written you and I've received several letters from you.

You seem to think that I will be home in short order, but from what I can see of this demobilization it is quite possible that I shall be kept for two or three months yet. The English never seem happy till they are hopelessly smothered and bound in illimitable red-tape. It's sickening!

The day after Christmas I got twelve days leave and hied me to Pontefract, to find a big party there. Besides the whole Blomfield family there were Tommy D-B., his

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